Panorpida

Robber Fly- Asilidae species with a Grass Yellow butterfly

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Holometabola
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladi: Amphiesmenoptera – Antliophora
[list of cladi after Grimaldi & Engel (2005: 147, table 4.1)]

Overview of ordines

Diptera – Lepidoptera – "Mecoptera" – Siphonaptera – Trichoptera – †Permotrichoptera – ?Strepsiptera
[list of ordines after Grimaldi & Engel (2005: 147, table 4.1), Minet et al. (2010)]

Name

Panorpida

Synonyms

• Mecopterida

References

• Grimaldi, D. & Engel, M.S. 2005. Evolution of the Insects. Cambridge University Press, New York, USA. ISBN 978-0-521-82149-0. limited preview on Google Books. Reference page. 
• 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(1–2): 262–270. DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2010.10697667 . Reference page.