Mecoptera

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Mandibulata
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: †Aneuretopsychina – Nannomecoptera – Neomecoptera – Pistillifera – †Protodiptera – Raptipedia – Siphonaptera – ...

Overview of familiae

†Aneuretopsychidae – Apteropanorpidae – †Australochoristidae – †Austropanorpidae – Bittacidae – Boreidae – †Cantabridae – Choristidae – †Choristopsychidae – †Cimbrophlebiidae – †Dinopanorpidae – Eomeropidae – †Eorpidae – †Holcorpidae – †Kaltanidae – Meropeidae – †Mesopanorpodidae – †Mesopsychidae – †Muchoriidae – Nannochoristidae – †Nedubroviidae – †Orthophlebiidae – Panorpidae – Panorpodidae – †Permochoristidae – †Permotanyderidae – †Permotipulidae – †Protomeropidae – †Protorthophlebiidae – †Pseudonannochoristidae – †Pseudopolycentropodidae – †Thaumatomeropidae – †Worcestobiidae

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

Archibald, S.B., Mathewes, R.W. & Greenwood, D.R. 2013. The Eocene apex of panorpoid scorpionfly family diversity. Journal of Paleontology 87(4): 677–695. doi:10.1666/12-129. ISSN 0022-3360. Reference page.
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. In: Foottit, R.G. & Adler, P.H. (Eds.) Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society, Volume II. Wiley-Blackwell, West Sussex, UK: 705–720. ISBN 978-1-118-94557-5.
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 Shaanxi, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 32: 261–267.
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 2001(2): 66–75. [in Russian, English translation in Paleontological Journal 35(2): 173–182. Abstract]
Ren, D., Labandeira, C.C., Santiago-Blay, J.A., Rasnitsyn, A., Shih, C.K., Bashkuev, A., Logan, M.A.V., Hotton, C.L. & Dilcher, D. 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(1): 61–66. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6395.2002.00099.x .
Somma, L.A. 2012. The dates of Westwood’s Mecoptera (Insecta) publications reexamined and further corrected. Zootaxa 3332: 67–68. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3332.1.5 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 [1]
Nomina Nearctica - Mecoptera of North America [2]

Vernacular names

Alemannisch: Schnabelmugge
беларуская: Скарпіёнавы мухі
dansk: Skorpionfluer
Deutsch: Schnabelfliegen
English: Scorpionflies
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