dermaptera in English

noun
1
an order of insects that comprises the earwigs.
Insects, such as Hymenoptera, Heteroptera, Coleoptera, Dermaptera , some Diptera, and some Lepidoptera have convergently developed an ability to attach their wings to the body when resting.

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1. Dermaptera is an order o beasties wi common names sic as horny-gollachs, eariwigs, clipshears, an forkietails.Ae o the smaaest order o beasties, Dermaptera haes juist ower 2,000 species skared amang 16 faimlies.The name Dermaptera means "wings o skin", effeirin tae the striffiny hindwings that fauld in Aneath the cutty teuch forewings

2. The invention relates to novel combinations of flubendiamide and useful organisms, comprising flubendiamide and at least one useful organism from the orders or sub-orders Araneae, Acari, Dermaptera, Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, Neuroptera, Thysanoptera, Heteroptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, Dermaptera and/or Parasitiforms or at least one bacterial strain or at least one viral strain for effectively controlling undesired pests.

3. Anoplura Sucking lice Piercing-sucking, stylet sac absent Blattaria Cockroaches Chewing Variable Coleoptera Beetles Chewing 2 pair (1st pair = elytra) Collembola Springtails Chewing Apterous Dermaptera Earwigs Chewing 2 pair, front pair elytra, second membranous Diplura Diplurans Chewing lacking Diptera Flies Piercing-sucking, or sponging 1