Definition of Order mecoptera

1. Noun. An order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip.

Exact synonyms: Mecoptera
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Class Hexapoda, Class Insecta, Hexapoda, Insecta
Member holonyms: Mecopteran, Family Panorpidae, Panorpidae, Bittacidae, Family Bittacidae
Derivative terms: Mecopterous

Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Mecoptera

order Lepidodendrales
order Lepidoptera
order Lichenales
order Liliales
order Lobata
order Loricata
order Lycoperdales
order Lycopodiales
order Lyginopteridales
order Madreporaria
order Mallophaga
order Malvales
order Marattiales
order Marchantiales
order Marsupialia
order Mecoptera
order Moniliales
order Monotremata
order Mucorales
order Musales
order Myaceae
order Mycelia Sterilia
order Mycoplasmatales
order Mycrosporidia
order Myricales
order Myrtales
order Mysidacea
order Myxobacterales
order Myxobacteria
order Myxobacteriales

Literary usage of Order mecoptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... THE SCORPION FLIES (order mecoptera.) The curious insects of this order are ordinarily called scorpion flies, although this term applies strictly only ..."

2. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"order mecoptera.—The order Mecoptera includes a few little-known insects called snow-fleas and scorpion-flies. The mouth-parts are of biting type, ..."

3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... they capture and drink the blood of any ants that chance to slip down into the trap. FIG. s8i. — Order MECOPTERA. Scorpion fly, Panorpa communis, male. ..."

4. Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers by John Henry Comstock (1901)
"Order MECOPTERA (Me-cop'te-ra). The Scorpion-flies and Others. The members of this order have four wings; these are membranous and furnished with numerous ..."

5. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"order mecoptera, — Scorpion flies, — mouth parts prolonged into a beak with mandibles at the tip ; complex metamorphosis. 12. ..."

6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The insects of the single family in the order Mecoptera are indifferent in their economic relations, though probably slightly beneficial. ..."

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