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Mecoptera (from the Gr****:
mecos = "long",
ptera = "wings") is an
order of
insects in the
superorder Holometabola with
about six
hundred species in nine...
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indicates that
fleas are a
specialised lineage of
parasitic scorpionflies (
Mecoptera)
sensu lato, most
closely related to the
family Nannochoristidae. The...
- Insects,
which are a type of arthropod, are the most
numerous group of
multicellular organisms on the planet, with over a
million species identified so...
- (Hymenoptera), and
Panorpida (Siphonaptera, Diptera, Trichoptera,
Lepidoptera and
Mecoptera).
Molecular analysis has
clarified the group's phylogeny, as
shown in...
- The two
possible trees are
shown below: (a)
Mecoptera is paraphyletic,
containing Siphonaptera: (b)
Mecoptera is monophyletic,
sister to
Siphonaptera Kristensen...
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Pistillifera is a
suborder of
endopterygote insects within the
Mecoptera that
contains the
scorpionflies and hangingflies. It was
described by R. Willmann...
- (fleas),
Mecoptera (scorpionflies) and
possibly Strepsiptera (twisted-wing flies).
Diptera has been
grouped with
Siphonaptera and
Mecoptera in the Antliophora...
- S2CID 14059547. Whiting, M. F. (2002). "
Mecoptera is paraphyletic:
multiple genes and
phylogeny of
Mecoptera and Siphonaptera".
Zoologica Scripta. 31...
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characteristic of
Mecoptera . The
third thorax segment was also reduced,
which has been
considered another intermediate feature between the
Mecoptera and the Diptera ...
- (twisted-winged parasites)
Superorder Panorpida Antliophora Mecopteroidea Order Mecoptera (scorpionflies, etc.)
Order Siphonaptera (fleas)
Order Diptera (true flies)...
