Definition of Mecopteran. Meaning of Mecopteran. Synonyms of Mecopteran

- Holometabola with about six hundred species in nine families worldwide. Mecopterans are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae...
- Dictyoptera. Fleas are now thought to be closely related to boreid mecopterans. The oldest fossil that may be a primitive wingless insect is Leverhulmia...
- Protodiptera is an extinct suborder of mecopteran insects containing the two families Permotanyderidae and Permotipulidae with a total of four genera Choristotanyderus...
- Lichnomesopsyche is an extinct genus of mesopsychid mecopteran which existed in what is now China during the middle Jur****ic period. It was found in the...
- supported; instead, there is the possibility that they are sister to another Mecopteran family, the Nannochoristidae of the Southern hemisphere. The two possible...
- as the sister group to Nannochoristidae, a small, relictual group of mecopterans native to the Southern Hemisphere. Fleas and nannochoristids share several...
- high-quality preservation, and Holcorpa, the type genus of the extinct Mecopteran family Holcorpidae, to which Miriholcorpa shows similarities. The specific...
- the taxonomist. Fleas are now thought to be closely related to boreid mecopterans. Many questions remain to be answered when it comes to basal relationships...
- studies have placed them as the closest living relatives of fleas. Most mecopteran larvae are eruciform, or shaped like caterpillars. Nannochoristid larvae...
- Vitimopsyche is an extinct genus of Mecopteran which existed in what is now northeastern China during the early Cretaceous period. It contains the species...