Dictyoptera

Common Name: roaches & mantids

Order Name Means: "net wings"

Pterygotes (Neopterous)

Hemimetabolous (Exopterygotes)

Cursorial legs and pronotum that extends over head in roaches

Rhaptorial front legs in mantids

Formerly two separate orders: Mantodea (mantids) and Blattodea (roaches)

Mantids with triangular-shaped head and ability to "look over shoulder"

Roaches flattened with leathery forewings