Mecoptera are small to medium-sized insects with long beaklike rostra, membranous wings and slender, elongated bodies. They have relatively simple mouthparts, with a long labium, long mandibles and fleshy palps, which resemble those of the more primitive true flies.

The Mecoptera (scorpionflies) are a curious group of terrestrial insects that usually live in moist sylvan habitats. Both larvae and adults are omnivorous. Mostly, they feed upon decaying vegetation and dead (or dying) insects.

2023年9月25日 · Order Mecoptera - Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Allies Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited Classification

Order Mecoptera. COMMON NAME: SCORPIONFLIES. The scorpionflies are small to medium-sized insects with four long, narrow wings and long antennae. They have chewing mouthparts located at the end of a broad, flat snout, which is two or three times as long as the head is wide. Metamorphosis is complete, the life stages being the egg, larva, pupa ...

Mecopterans are carnivorous, herbivorous, or omnivorous. Hangingflies are adapted to a predaceous lifestyle. Their hind legs are raptorial, with a single large tarsal claw, used to capture small insect prey. Prey is pierced with the rostrum, and fluids are withdrawn.

Mecoptera (from the Greek: mecos = "long", ptera = "wings") are an order of insects in the superorder Endopterygota with about six hundred species in nine families worldwide.

Information on Scorpionflies (Order: Mecoptera). The head of a scorpionfly is shaped like a beak, and this is a feature that is useful in distinguishing them from other insects.

Mecoptera, commonly known as scorpionflies, are a small order of ∼550 species in nine families. One family, the Nannochoristidae, has aquatic larvae. This small (eight species in two genera), relict family has a disjunct distribution in the southern hemisphere.

There are about 550 species of mecopterans worldwide, with 81 species in the United States and Canada. Mecopterans live mostly in cool, moist habitats, especially in shady forests near springs, streams, and rivers. Adults are usually found resting on leaves and other vegetation.

Mecoptera (from the Greek: meco- = "long", -ptera = "wings") are an order of insects with about 550 species in nine families worldwide. Mecoptera are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family Panorpidae, in which the males have enlarged genitals that look similar to the stinger of a scorpion.