Panorpida
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Clade: | Aparaglossata |
| Superorder: | Panorpida |
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Panorpida or Mecopterida is a proposed superorder of Holometabola. The conjectured monophyly of the Panorpida is historically based on morphological evidence, namely the reduction or loss of the ovipositor and several internal characteristics, including a muscle connecting a pleuron and the first axillary sclerite at the base of the wing, various features of the larval maxilla and labium, and basal fusion of CuP and A1 veins in the hind wings.[1][2] The monophyly of the Panorpida is supported by recent molecular data.[3]
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Antliophora
The Panorpid clade
(a) Mecoptera is paraphyletic, containing Siphonaptera:[7]
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(b) Mecoptera is monophyletic, sister to Siphonaptera[7]
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References
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- ^ Kristensen, Niels Peder (1991). "Phylogeny of extant hexapods". Insects of Australia: 126–140.
- ISBN 978-0-521-82149-0.)
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- S2CID 56100681. Archived from the originalon 2013-01-05.
- ISBN 978-0-231-50170-5.
Recently, a close affinity between Siphonaptera and Mecoptera has been convincingly demonstrated via morphology (Bilinski et al. 1998) and molecular data (Whiting 2002), rendering Mecoptera paraphyletic, but making the clade including Mecoptera and Siphonaptera monophyletic
- ^ bioRxiv 10.1101/2020.11.19.390666.
Further reading
- Minet, J.; Huang, D-T.; Wu, H.; Nel, A. (2010). "Early Mecopterida and the systematic position of the Microptysmatidae (Insecta: Endopterygota)". .