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Mecoptera

an order of insects containing the scorpion flies.
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Kristensen [27] noted the character as potentially important for indicating whether an amphiesmenopteran of uncertain affinity was of the trichopteran lineage or not, but it is not a synapomorphy and is limited in its diagnostic use as it is homoplasious, having evolved separately in different lineages of Trichoptera, some mecopterans (e.g., Bittacidae), and some basal Mecopterida (Microptysmatidae).
A Review of Necrotauliids from the Triassic/Jurassic of England (Trichoptera: Necrotauliidae)
Mecopteran species have yet to be documented in surveys of insect fauna associated with vertebrate mammalian carrion.
Merope tuber Newman (Mecoptera: Meropeidae) collected in association with carrion in Greene County, Ohio, USA: an infrequent collection of an elusive species
Flint Jr., "Mecopteran (mecoptera: Bittacidae, meropeidae, panorpidae) flight periods, sex ratios, and habitat frequencies in a united states mid-atlantic freshwater tidal marsh, low forest, and their ecotone," Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, vol.
Report on a large collection of Merope tuber newman, 1838 (Mecoptera: Meropeidae), from Arkansas, with notes on collection technique, sex ratio, and male clasper size

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