Panorpida
| Panorpida | |
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| Elenchus maorianus of genus Elenchus (female in delphacid host) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Clade: | Aparaglossata |
| Superorder: | Panorpida |
Panorpida or Mecopterida is superorder of Endopterygota. Hidden accept of Panorpida include a muscle connecting a pleura and first axillary sclerite at the base of the wing. the monophyly of Panorpida is also supported by molecular data. It is hard to comment what the lifestyle was of the ancestral Panorpida.[1]
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references
- ^ Evolution of the Insects Panorpida
- Grimaldi, D.; Engel, M.S. 2005: Evolution of the insects. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. limited preview on Google books
- Minet, J.; Huang, D-y.; Wu, H.; Nel, A. 2010: Early Mecopterida and the systematic position of the Microptysmatidae (Insecta: Endopterygota). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.), 46: 262-270. ISSN: 0037-9271