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    Mecoptera (from the Greek: mecos = "long", ptera = "wings") is an order of insects in the superorder Holometabola with about six hundred species in nine...
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    indicates that fleas are a specialised lineage of parasitic scorpionflies (Mecoptera) sensu lato, most closely related to the family Nannochoristidae. The...
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    (Hymenoptera), and Panorpida (Siphonaptera, Diptera, Trichoptera, Lepidoptera and Mecoptera). Molecular analysis has clarified the group's phylogeny, as shown in...
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    The two possible trees are shown below: (a) Mecoptera is paraphyletic, containing Siphonaptera: (b) Mecoptera is monophyletic, sister to Siphonaptera Kristensen...
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    S2CID 14059547. Whiting, M. F. (2002). "Mecoptera is paraphyletic: multiple genes and phylogeny of Mecoptera and Siphonaptera". Zoologica Scripta. 31...
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    Hymenoptera; Part II: Coleoptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, Siphonaptera, Mecoptera, Trichoptera. Columbus, OH. Richards, O.W. & R.G. Davies. 1977. Imm's...
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    Antliophora Mecoptera (scorpionflies) + Siphonaptera (fleas) Diptera (gnats, mosquitoes, flies) Amphiesmenoptera Trichoptera (caddisflies) Lepidoptera...
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    Panorpa nuptialis (category Mecoptera stubs)
    Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23. "World Checklist of Extant Mecoptera Species". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2019-07-02. Media...
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    Snow scorpionfly (category Mecoptera)
    whether the Mecoptera form a single clade, or whether the Siphonaptera (fleas) are inside that clade, so that the traditional "Mecoptera" is paraphyletic...
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    (fleas), Mecoptera (scorpionflies) and possibly Strepsiptera (twisted-wing flies). Diptera has been grouped with Siphonaptera and Mecoptera in the Antliophora...
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