-
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...
- as the
sister group to Nannochoristidae, a small,
relictual group of
mecopterans native to the
Southern Hemisphere.
Fleas and
nannochoristids share several...
- Tri****ic
Potrerillos Formation Argentina An
agetopanorpine permochoristid mecopteran. Type
species is
Argentinopanorpa miguezi.
Australochorista Gen. et comb...
- 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...
-
confirms that this
taxon is an
early hangingfly. New
specimens of the
mecopteran species Burmomerope clara (a male and a well-preserved female), providing...
- supported; instead,
there is the
possibility that they are
sister to
another Mecopteran family, the
Nannochoristidae of the
Southern hemisphere. The two possible...
-
specifically the
modern southern hemisphere endemic groups Eomeropidae mecopterans and
Myrmeciinae bulldog ants. The
majority of the lake
deposits are compression...
- 2015 in
paleoentomology is a list of new
fossil insect taxa that were
described during the year 2016, as well as
other significant discoveries and events...