order Mecoptera

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Noun1.order Mecoptera - an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tiporder Mecoptera - an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
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
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Byers, "Order Mecoptera. Scorptionflies and hangingflies," in Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, C.
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
Order Mecoptera. Scorpionflies and hangingflies, p.
Merope tuber Newman (Mecoptera: Meropeidae) collected in association with carrion in Greene County, Ohio, USA: an infrequent collection of an elusive species
Bittacus strigosus (hanging fly) is a member of the Order Mecoptera. Taxonomic relationships among insects are often clarified by characteristics of sperm.
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