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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Allies (Mecoptera)

Order Mecoptera - Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and Allies

 
 
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Hangingflies · Snow Scorpionflies · Forcepflies · Common Scorpionflies · Short-faced Scorpionflies

Family Bittacidae - Hangingflies
Bittacus - Bittacus punctiger - male Bittacus texanus Bittacus texanus - male Bittacus punctiger - female Another CA Hanging Fly - Bittacus chlorostigma - female I believe this is a Black-tipped Hangingfly, Hylobittacus apicalis - Hylobittacus apicalis Bittacus sp.? - Bittacus Bittacus

Family Boreidae - Snow Scorpionflies
B. brumalis? - Boreus brumalis - male Snow-born Boreus - Boreus nivoriundus - male Boreus elegans - male Caurinus dectes Russell 1979 - Caurinus dectes Boreus nivoriundus - male Mid-winter Boreus - Boreus brumalis - female Boreus brumalis - male Boreus brumalis - male

Family Meropeidae - Forcepflies
Merope tuber - Forcepsfly or Earwigfly - dorsal view - Merope tuber - male Forcepfly - Merope tuber - female Forcepfly - Merope tuber - female Forcepfly - Merope tuber - female Forcepfly - Merope tuber Unknown - Merope tuber Merope tuber - male Merope tuber

Family Panorpidae - Common Scorpionflies
unknown insect - Panorpa latipennis female Pandorpa sp. - Panorpa nebulosa - female Scorpionfly - Panorpa Panorpa scorpionfly - Panorpa Scorpionfly (Panorpa nuptialis) - male ? - Panorpa nuptialis Panorpa Panorpa sp - Panorpa

Family Panorpodidae - Short-faced Scorpionflies
Mecoptera - Brachypanorpa oregonensis At last a female.. - Brachypanorpa oregonensis - female New male - Brachypanorpa oregonensis - male New male - Brachypanorpa oregonensis - male Brachpanorpa Female (from Oregon) - Brachypanorpa oregonensis - female Unknown insect - Brachypanorpa oregonensis Don't even know - Brachypanorpa sacajawea Brachypanorpa sp. -- Short-faced Scorpionfly - Brachypanorpa sacajawea

 
 
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