Definition of Mecopterans. Meaning of Mecopterans. Synonyms of Mecopterans

- 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...
- as the sister group to Nannochoristidae, a small, relictual group of mecopterans native to the Southern Hemisphere. Fleas and nannochoristids share several...
- supported; instead, there is the possibility that they are sister to another Mecopteran family, the Nannochoristidae of the Southern hemisphere. The two possible...
- specifically the modern southern hemisphere endemic groups Eomeropidae mecopterans and Myrmeciinae bulldog ants. The majority of the lake deposits are compression...
- The Allenby formation is a sedimentary rock formation in British Columbia which was deposited during the Ypresian stage of the Early Eocene. It consists...
- 2019 in paleoentomology is a list of new fossil insect taxa that were described during the year 2019, as well as other significant discoveries and events...
- confirms that this taxon is an early hangingfly. New specimens of the mecopteran species Burmomerope clara (a male and a well-preserved female), providing...
- 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...
- 2015 in paleoentomology is a list of new fossil insect taxa that were described during the year 2016, as well as other significant discoveries and events...