Volume 48, Number 1,
May 2002:
Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and other Mecoptera

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author

IN THIS ISSUE
- The Order Mecoptera
- Fossils
- Modern Species
- Family Panorpidae
- Family Bittacidae
- Family Meropeidae
- Family Panorpodidae
- Family Boreidae
- Key to the Families of North American Mecoptera (Adults)
- References

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Scorpionflies, Hangingflies, and other Mecoptera
by Geroge W. Byers

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. George Byers is Entomology Professor Emeritus at the Snow Entomological Division of the Museums of Natural History at the University of Kansas. He is the world authority on scorpionflies as well as a systematist of crane flies. The K.U. museum has by far the largest collection of scorpionflies, including type specimens, in the world.