NOUN
- an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
How To Use Mecoptera In A Sentence
- Mecoptera: long-winged: neuropterous insects with similar, large, unfolded wings; mouth mandibulate, prolonged into a beak: head free; thorax agglutinated; transformations complete: the scorpion flies or Panorpidae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- The hymenopteran and mecopteran arolium may be patterned in lines.
- Panorpidae (true scorpionflies) is the most speciose family of mecopterans.
- These small, darkly colored mecopterans are most often and most easily seen on snow.
- There are about 550 species of mecopterans worldwide, with 81 species in the United States and Canada.
- The hymenopteran and mecopteran arolium may be patterned in lines.
- Panorpatae: = Mecoptera; q.v. Pantherine: in color, almost like cervinus; q.v.: in maculation, like those of a panther. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- Two different types of ovaries have been described in mecopterans.
