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| − | {{Taxobox_begin | color=pink | name=Mecoptera}}
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| − | <!--{{Taxobox_image | image = [[:de:Bild:Skorpionsfliege.jpg]] | caption = [[Panorpa communis]], female}}--> | + | </noinclude> |
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| − | {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Animal]]ia}}
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| − | {{Taxobox_phylum_entry | taxon = [[Arthropod]]a}}
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| − | {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Insect]]a}}
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| − | {{Taxobox_superordo_entry | taxon = [[Endopterygota]]}}
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| − | {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = '''Mecoptera'''}}<br/>{{Taxobox authority | author = Hyatt & Arms | date = 1891}}
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| − | {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = pink | plural_taxon = Families}}
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| − | * [[Nannochoristidae]]
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| − | * [[Boreidae]] (snow fleas)
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| − | * [[Siphonaptera]] (fleas)
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| − | * [[Meropeidae]] (earwig flies)
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| − | * [[Eomeropidae]]
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| − | * [[Apteropanorpidae]]
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| − | * [[Choristidae]]
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| − | * [[Panorpodidae]]
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| − | * [[Bittacidae]] (hanging flies)
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| − | * [[Panorpidae]] (scorpion flies)
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| − | '''Mecoptera''' are an order of [[insect]]s with about 600 species worldwide. Mecoptera are sometimes called '''scorpionflies''' after their largest non-flea family, [[Panorpidae]], in which the males have enlarged genitals that look similar to the stinger of a [[scorpion]]. The [[Bittacidae]], or '''hangingflies''', are a prominent family of elongate insects known for their elaborate mating rituals, in which females choose mates based on the quality of gift prey offered by various males. | + | <!--T:6--> |
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| − | Recent [[DNA]] evidence indicates that [[flea]]s, which are traditionally considered to be also of order level as the order Siphonaptera, are instead highly specialized Mecoptera. Grouped together with the fleas, Mecoptera would have about 3000 species.
| + | | common_name = Scorpionflies |
| − | | + | | image = Bittacidae_fg1.jpg |
| − | [[Image:Bittacidae_fg1.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Bittacidae from Australia]]
| + | | latin_name = Mecoptera |
| − | | + | | order = '''Mecoptera''' |
| − | ==References==
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| − | * {{Journal reference|
| + | '''Mecoptera''' (from the Greek: ''meco-'' = "long", ''ptera-'' = "wings") are an order of insects with about 550 species in nine families worldwide. The Bittacidae, or '''hangingflies''', are a prominent family of elongate insects known for their elaborate mating rituals, in which females choose mates based on the quality of gift prey offered by various males. |
| − | Author=Whiting, M. F. |
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| − | Title=Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera |
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| − | Year = 2002 |
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| − | Journal = Zoologica Scripta |
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| − | Volume = 31 |
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| − | Issue = 1 |
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| − | Pages = 93}} [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/servlet/useragent?func=synergy&synergyAction=showAbstract&doi=10.1046/j.0300-3256.2001.00095.x]
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Mecoptera&contgroup=Endopterygota Mecoptera at the Tree of Life]
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| − | * [http://www.myrmecos.net/insects/mecoptera.html Mecoptera image gallery at myrmecos.net]
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| − | [[de:Schnabelfliegen]]
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| − | [[category:Insects]]
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