Mecoptera

Translingual

A typical scorpion Fly. Panorpa communis. Mecoptera. The apparent "sting" in the tail is harmless.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῆκος (mêkos, “length, long”) and πτερόν (pterón, “wings”).

Proper noun

Mecoptera

1. A taxonomic order within the class Insecta – scorpionflies.

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class

Hyponyms

• (order): †Aneuretopsychidae, Apteropanorpidae, †Australochoristidae, Bittacidae (hangingflies), Boreidae (snow scorpionflies), Choristidae, †Choristopsychidae, †Cimbrophlebiidae, †Dinopanorpidae, †Permochoristidae, †Englathaumatidae, Eomeropidae, Meropeidae (earwigflies), †Mesopsychidae, †Nedubroviidae, Panorpidae (common scorpionflies), Panorpodidae(short-faced scorpionflies), †Permochoristidae, Pseudopolycentropodidae

References

• Mecoptera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mecoptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Mecoptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI