| Dictyoptera Temporal range: Carboniferous–Recent
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| Temnopteryx sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Cohort: | Polyneoptera |
| Superorder: | Dictyoptera Latreille, 1829 |
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Dictyoptera (from Greek δίκτυον diktyon "net" and πτερόν pteron "wing") is an insect superorder that includes two extant orders of polyneopterous insects: the order Blattodea (termites and cockroaches together)[1] and the order Mantodea (mantises). All modern Dictyoptera have short ovipositors and typically lay oothecae. The oldest fossils of Dictyoptera from the Late Carboniferous, referred to as "roachoids" have long ovipositors and did not lay oothecae. The oldest modern oothecae-laying dictyopterans date to the Late Triassic.[2]
- ^ Beccaloni, G. W. 2014. Cockroach Species File Online. Version 5.0 World Wide Web electronic publication.
- ^ Cariglino, Bárbara; Lara, María Belén; Zavattieri, Ana María (October 2020). "Earliest record of fossil insect oothecae confirms the presence of crown‐dictyopteran taxa in the Late Triassic". Systematic Entomology. 45 (4): 935–947. doi:10.1111/syen.12442. hdl:11336/149313. ISSN 0307-6970.