单词 | panorpoid |
释义 | panorpoidadj.n. Entomology. Resembling a scorpion fly; spec. of or designating a group of closely related insect orders including Mecoptera (the scorpion flies). Also as n.: a panorpoid insect.The panorpoid orders include: Mecoptera, Siphonaptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Trichoptera. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [adjective] > of or relating to order Mecoptera > of family Panorpidae > resembling or related to scorpion-flies panorpoid1895 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Panorpoid, a. 1918–19 R. J. Tillyard in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 43 268 We may then proceed to define the ‘Panorpoid Complex’ as that assemblage of Orders whose ancestral characters can be shown to possess close affinity with the characters preserved to a great measure in the Order Mecoptera. 1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) I. 75 In the Lepidoptera and other Panorpoid orders the prolegs appear to have arisen independently in each group, they are absent or lack muscles in the more primitive Panorpoids. 1991 Evolution 45 572/1 The order Diptera and its probable sister group Mecoptera (scorpionflies) both belong to the mecopteroid (= panorpoid) group of holometabolic insect orders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1895 |
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