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platyptera

platyptera


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Platyptera  \Pla*typ"te*ra\,  n.  pl  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ?  broad  +  ?  a 
  wing.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  A  division  of  Pseudoneuroptera  including  the  species  which 
  have  four  broad,  flat  wings,  as  the  termites,  or  white-ants, 
  and  the  stone  flies  ({Perla}).