Mecoptera (redirected from mecopterans)

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Mecoptera - an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip order Mecoptera animal order - the order of animals class Hexapoda, class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta - insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species mecopteran - any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera family Panorpidae, Panorpidae - a family of insects of the order Mecoptera Bittacidae, family Bittacidae - a family of predacious tropical insects of the order Mecoptera