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Encyclopedic overview
Articles relating to the Mecoptera, an order of insects in the superorder Holometabola with about six hundred species in nine families worldwide. Mecopterans are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae, in which the males have enlarged genitals raised over the body that look similar to the stingers of scorpions, and long beaklike rostra.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Mecoptera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.