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

(Back cover) Taeniochorista pallida, a scorpionfly from Queensland, Australia.

REFERENCES

Beckemeyer, R. J. 2000. The Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas. Kansas School Naturalist 46: 1–16.

Byers, G. W. 1963. The Life History of Panorpa nuptialis (Mecoptera: Panorpidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 56: 142–149.

Byers, G. W. 1973. Zoogeography of the Meropeidae (Mecoptera). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 46: 511–516.

Byers, G. W. 1997. Biology of Brachypanorpa (Mecoptera: Panorpidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 70: 313–322.

Byers, G. W. and R. Thornhill. 1983. Annual Review of Entomology 28: 203–228.

Carpenter, F. M. 1928. A Scorpion-fly from the Green River Eocene. Annals of the Carnegie Museum18: 241-246, plate 12.

Carpenter, F. M. 1931a. Revision of the Nearctic Mecoptera. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology(Harvard University) 72: 205–277, plates 1–8.

Carpenter, F. M. 1931b. The Affinities of Holcorpa maculosa Scudder and Other Tertiary Mecoptera, with Descriptions of New Genera. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 39: 405–414, plate 33.

Schrock, J. R. 1992. Snow Flies. Kansas School Naturalist 38: page 15.

Setty, L. R. 1940. Biology and Morphology of Some North American Bittacidae (Order Mecoptera). The American Midland Naturalist 23: 257–353.

Thornhill, R. 1976.  Sexual Selection and Nuptial Feeding Behavior in Bittacus apicalis (Insecta: Mecoptera).  The American Naturalist 110: 529–548.