Noun: order mantophasmatodea
- An order of insect identified in 2002 in a 45 million year old piece of amber from the Baltic region
"The discovery of order mantophasmatodea revolutionized our understanding of insect evolution";
- Mantophasmatodea
Type of: animal order
Part of: class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta