Mecoptera
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A typical scorpion Fly. Panorpa communis. Mecoptera. The apparent "sting" in the tail is harmless.
Translingual
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek μῆκος (mêkos, “length, long”) and πτερόν (pterón, “wings”).
Proper noun
Mecoptera
- A taxonomic order within the class Insecta – scorpionflies.
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class
Hyponyms
- (order): †Aneuretopsychidae, Apteropanorpidae, †Australochoristidae, Bittacidae (hangingflies), Boreidae (snow scorpionflies), Choristidae, †Choristopsychidae, †Cimbrophlebiidae, †Dinopanorpidae, †Permochoristidae, †Englathaumatidae, Eomeropidae, Meropeidae (earwigflies), †Mesopsychidae, †Nedubroviidae, Panorpidae (common scorpionflies), Panorpodidae(short-faced scorpionflies), †Permochoristidae, Pseudopolycentropodidae – families
References
Mecoptera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Mecoptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Mecoptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
