Mecoptera
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Taxonavigation
editSuperregnum: 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
editApteropanorpidae –
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
editMecoptera Packard, 1886
Synonymy
edit- Mecaptera Packard, 1886: 808
References
editPrimary references
edit- Packard, A.S. 1886. A new arrangement of the orders of insects. The American Naturalist 20(9): 808. BHL.
Additional references
edit- 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: 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
edit- 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
editбеларуская: 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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