Mecoptera

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Mecoptera
Subordines: Nannomecoptera – Neomecoptera – Pistillifera – Siphonaptera – †Aneuretopsychina – †Protodiptera – ...

Overview of familiae

Apteropanorpidae – Bittacidae – Boreidae – Choristidae – Eomeropidae – Meropeidae – Nannochoristidae – Panorpidae – Panorpodidae
†Aneuretopsychidae – †Choristopsychidae – †Cimbrophlebiidae – †Dinopanorpidae – †Holcorpidae – †Kaltanidae – †Mesopanorpodidae – †Mesopsychidae – †Nedubroviidae – †Permochoristidae – †Permotanyderidae – †Permotipulidae – †Protomeropidae – †Pseudonannochoristidae – †Pseudopolycentropodidae – †Thaumatomeropidae

Genera incertae sedis: †Mecaenigma

Name

Mecoptera Packard, 1886

Synonymy

Mecaptera Packard, 1886: 808

References

Primary references

Packard, A.S. 1886. A new arrangement of the orders of insects. The American Naturalist 20(9): 808. BHL.

Additional references

Bashkuev, A.S. 2011: Nedubroviidae, a new family of Mecoptera: the first Paleozoic long-proboscid scorpionflies. Zootaxa, 2895: 47–57. Preview
Bicha, W. 2018. Biodiversity of Mecoptera. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume II. Foottit, R. G. and Adler, P. H. (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex, UK: 705–720.
Blades, D.C.A. 2019. Mecoptera of Canada. Pp 451–453 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.26627 Reference page.
Dvorak, L. & Japoshvili, G. 2018. The scorpionflies (Mecoptera) from Lagodekhi Reserve, with some distributional and seasonal activity data. Zootaxa 4407(1): 137–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.11 Reference page.
Ferrington, L.C., jr. 2008: Global biodiversity of scorpionflies and hangingflies (Mecoptera) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia, 595(1): 443–445. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-007-9133-y
Friedrich, F. & Beutel, R.G. 2010. The thoracic morphology of Nannochorista (Nannochoristidae) and its implications for the phylogeny of Mecoptera and Antliophora. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 48(1): 50–74. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2009.00535.x . Reference page.
Hong, Y.C., 2007: Midtriassic new genera and species of Mesopanorpodidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from Shannxi,China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 2007-02: Abstract: [1].
Machado, R.J.P.; Godoi, F.S.P.; Rafael, J.A. 2009: Neotropical Mecoptera (Insecta): new generic synonymies, new combinations, key to families and genera, and checklist of species. Zootaxa, 2148: 27–38. Abstract & excerpt
Minet, J., Huang, D.-Y., Wu, H. & Nel, A. 2010. Early Mecopterida and the systematic position of the Microptysmatidae (Insecta: Endopterygota). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.) 46(1–2): 262–270. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2010.10697667 . Reference page.
Novokshonov, V.G.; Sukacheva, I.D. 2001: Fossil scorpionflies of the 'suborder' Paratrichoptera (Insecta: Mecoptera). Paleontologicheskii zhurnal, 2: 66–75. [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological journal, 35(2): 173–182. ISSN 0031-0301 Abstract]
Ren, D. et al. 2009: A probable pollination mode before angiosperms: Eurasian, long-proboscid scorpionflies. Science, 326: 840–847. DOI: 10.1126/science.1178338
Simiczyjew, B. 2002: Structure of the ovary in Nannochorista neotropica Navás (Insecta: Mecoptera: Nannochoristidae) with remarks on mecopteran phylogeny. Acta zoologica, 83: 61–66.
Somma, L.A. 2012. The dates of Westwood’s Mecoptera (Insecta) publications reexamined and further corrected. Zootaxa 3332: 67–68. Preview Reference page.
Whiting, M.F. 2002. Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera. Zoologica Scripta 31(1): 93–104. DOI: 10.1046/j.0300-3256.2001.00095.x .
Willman, R. 1987: The phylogenetic system of the Mecoptera. Systematic entomology, 12: 519–524. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1987.tb00222.x
Willman, R. 1989. Evolution und phylogenetisches System der Mecoptera (Insecta: Holometabola). Abhandlungen der senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 544: 1–153.

Links

Norman D. Penny, World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species
Australian Faunal Directory: HTML Table Checklist for Mecoptera [2]
Nomina Nearctica - Mecoptera of North America [3]

Vernacular names

Alemannisch: Schnabelmugge
беларуская: Скарпіёнавы мухі
dansk: Skorpionfluer
Deutsch: Schnabelfliegen
eesti: Koonulised
magyar: Csőrösrovarok
日本語: シリアゲムシ目 (長翅目)
lietuvių: Skorpionmusės
latviešu: Knābjgalvji
norsk: Skorpionfluer
polski: wojsiłki
русский: Скорпионницы
slovenščina: Kljunavci
中文: 長翅目

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