the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Mecoptera > family Panorpidae (2)
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an insect of the family Panorpidæ, the slender abdomen of which is armed with forceps, and curls like the tail of a scorpion.