Certainly, Mecoptera are among the oldest neuropteroid or holometabolous insects known from the fossil record. They make up a relatively conspicuous part of the insect fauna of the Lower Permian...

Nov 18, 1974 · The small insect order Mecoptera has been studied in more detail than one would expect from the number of described, living species (450), due partly to its probable phyletic position among …

Systematics, phylogeny and evolution bers of the Mecoptera (see below). The extant species are classified in nine families, but the monophyly of extant Mecoptera is still under discussion, mainly …

The Mecoptera are represented in Canada by 25 extant species in four families, an increase of three species since the prior assessment in 1979. An additional 18 or more species and one family are …

Introduction: The order Mecoptera (Mecos=long; Ptera=wings) are commonly called as Scorpionflies, due to enlarged and upturned male genitals in the family Panorpidae.

Abstract: Six new species of the extinct family Dinopanorpidae (Mecoptera) are described in the new genus Dinokanaga gen. nov. from five Early (and early Middle?) Eocene Okanagan Highlands …

Species/Subspecies tasmanica iridipennis apterus chilensis chlorostigma femoralis laevipes occidentis pilicornis punctiger stigmaterus strigosus takaoensis australis apicalis brumalis nivoriundus …