-
Holometabola with
about six
hundred species in nine
families worldwide.
Mecopterans are
sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae...
- Dictyoptera.
Fleas are now
thought to be
closely related to
boreid mecopterans. The
oldest fossil that may be a
primitive wingless insect is Leverhulmia...
- Permian,
going on to
become diverse during the Late Permian. Some
Permian mecopterans, like
Mesopsychidae have long
proboscis that
suggest they may have pollinated...
- This list of 2024 in
paleoentomology records new
fossil insect taxa that are to be
described during the year, as well as do****ents
significant paleoentomology...
- supported; instead,
there is the
possibility that they are
sister to
another Mecopteran family, the
Nannochoristidae of the
Southern hemisphere. The two possible...
-
Protodiptera is an
extinct suborder of
mecopteran insects containing the two
families Permotanyderidae and
Permotipulidae with a
total of four
genera Choristotanyderus...
- high-quality preservation, and Holcorpa, the type
genus of the
extinct Mecopteran family Holcorpidae, to
which Miriholcorpa shows similarities. The specific...
- as the
sister group to Nannochoristidae, a small,
relictual group of
mecopterans native to the
Southern Hemisphere.
Fleas and
nannochoristids share several...
-
Vitimopsyche is an
extinct genus of
Mecopteran which existed in what is now
northeastern China during the
early Cretaceous period. It
contains the species...
-
mecopteran.
Sinoagetopanorpa grimaldii Sp. nov
Valid Lian, Cai &
Huang Permian (Capitanian)
Yinping Formation China A
sinoagetopanorpid mecopteran....