Mecoptera
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Translingual
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μῆκος (mêkos, “length, long”) and πτερόν (pterón, “wings”).
Proper noun
[edit]Mecoptera
- A taxonomic order within the class Insecta – scorpionflies.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class
Hyponyms
[edit]- (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
[edit]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