The Spiny flower mantis (Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii

The order is believed to be cognate to the Blattaria and Isoptera with whom it shares the asymmetry of the male reproductive system and the reduction of the ovipositor. This subset of insects Polineotteri, equipped with numerous veins in the wings, and of Orthopterida with straight wings, is indicated as Dictyoptera because the wings have a reticulum of secondary alar veins that recalls the fishing nets from the old Greek “δίκτυον” (dictyo), that is, net.