Mecoptera

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Related to Mecoptera: Panorpidae, Siphonaptera, Boreidae

Mecoptera

an order of insects containing the scorpion flies.

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Willmann, "Mecoptera (Insecta, Holometabola) Fossilum Catalogus," Animalia, vol.

A Review of Necrotauliids from the Triassic/Jurassic of England (Trichoptera: Necrotauliidae)

Seven confirmed prey records are available: Isoptera (alate), Lepidoptera (two unidentified moths), Mecoptera (Bittacidae--Bittacus nebulosus), Diptera (Tipulidae), Coleoptera (Chrysomelidae, Scarabaeidae).

The genus Synolcus Loew, 1858, with descriptions of new species (Diptera: Asilidae)

Archibald, S.B., 2009, New Cimbrophlebiidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Early Eocene, McAbee, British Columbia, Canada, and Republic, Washington, USA: Zootaxa, v.

Great Canadian Lagerstatten 1. Early Eocene Lagerstatten of the Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia and Washington State)

Various species of Panorpidae have also been recorded on carrion and feeding on nectar, herb pollen, and frnitjuices (Byers and Thornhill, 1983), and recently the elusive eomeropid, Notiothauma reedi MacLachlan (Mecoptera: Eomeropidae), was found in large numbers on carrion (Jara-Soto et al., 2007).

Merope tuber Newman (Mecoptera: Meropeidae) collected in association with carrion in Greene County, Ohio, USA: an infrequent collection of an elusive species

The first superclade is a mecopteroid assemblage (Mecopteroidea), comprised of the Amphiesmenoptera, consisting of the well supported Lepidoptera and Trichoptera; plus the Antliophora, consisting of the internally less well supported Mecoptera, Siphonaptera and Diptera (Kristensen, 1999).

Evidence for an earliest late carboniferous divergence time and the early larval ecology and diversification of major Holometabola lineages

Bittacus strigosus (hanging fly) is a member of the Order Mecoptera. Taxonomic relationships among insects are often clarified by characteristics of sperm.

Zoology

Sexual selection and nuptial feeding behaviour in Bitttacus apicalis (Insecta: Mecoptera).

Conflict or cooperation in the courtship display of the white widow spider, Latrodectus pallidas

Unusual new record of "hangingflies" from Colombia (Mecoptera, Bittacidae)

Un nuevo e inusual registro de "moscas colgantes" para Colombia (Mecoptera, Bittacidae)

Arthropods collected at 5 sites in the preserve, included these 9 insect orders (with number of families on parentheses): Coleopt era (15), Diptera (12), Hymenoptera (10), Hemiptera (9), Lepidoptera (9), Homoptera (4), Siphonaptera (2), Phasmida (1), and Mecoptera (1).

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Panorpa (Mecoptera, Panorpidae) Scorpionflies: systems for understanding resource-defence polygyny and alternative male reproductive efforts.

The influence of movement and resisting behavior on the range of three Carabid beetles

Alternative female choice tactics in the scorpion fly Hylobittacus apicalis (Mecoptera) and their implications.

Cryptic female choice: criteria for establishing female sperm choice

Taxones Ordenes y familias de especies de insectos residentes acuaticos y semiacuaticos presentes en este ambiente: Blattodea; Coleoptera (Carabidae, Chrysomelidae del genero Donacia, Dryopidae, Dytiscidae, Elmidae, Hydrochidae, Hydrophilidae, Limnichidae, Lepiceridae, Psephenidae); Diptera (larvas de Syrphidae); Ephemeroptera (Polymitarcyidae); Hemiptera; Mecoptera (larvas) y Trichoptera (Hydropsychidae, Odontoceridae).