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Mecoptera/NCState-AgNIC - English
URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/taxon/mecoptera/index.html

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This page has resources on Mecoptera, the scorpionflies and hangingflies.

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Mecoptera list - English
URL: http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/Species_Lists/Mecopt.html

University of Michigan Collection.

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Mecoptera - English
URL: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/hexapoda/mecopte

Cladogram.

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Mecoptera - English
URL: http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/mecopt~1.html

The name Mecoptera, derived from the Greek words "meco" meaning long and "ptera" meaning wings, refers to the shape of both the front and hind wings.

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World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species - English
URL: http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/mecoptera/panorpid.htm

The Genera of Panorpidae.

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World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species - English
URL: http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/mecoptera/choristi.htm

CHORISTIDAE.

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World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species - English
URL: http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/mecoptera/boreidae.htm

BOREIDAE (Winter Scorpion-flies).

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World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species - English
URL: http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/mecoptera/bittacid.htm

BITTACIDAE (Hanging-flies).

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World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species - English
URL: http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/mecoptera/

Mecoptera represent one of the major basic lineages of holometabolous insects. They are most often defined by the characters they do not possess. Hindwings are not modified into small halteres, as in Diptera. Forewings are not modified into sclerotized wing covers, as in Coleoptera. Wings are not covered with hairs or scales, as in Trichoptera and Lepidoptera.

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