Species list, Checklist of Order Mecoptera (Hanging flies) for Cape Town (Western Cape)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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Checklist for Order Mecoptera Hyatt & Arms, 1891 (Hanging flies)
and region Cape Town (Western Cape)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	283 1672 2201	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	283 1672 2201	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	275 1655 2186	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	205 1494 2029	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Mecoptera Hyatt & Arms, 1891 Hanging flies, Hangingflies, Scorpion flies, Scorpionflies	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Cape Town
2 Families width 3 Species and 2 Subspecies

Ceratophyllidae Dampf, 1908	Bird Fleas	2	Species	Taxom
Pulicidae Billberg, 1820	Cat fleas	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Cape Town
3 Genera with 3 Species

Amphipsylla Wagner, 1977	1	Species	Taxom
Atopopsyllus Poinar, 2015	1	Species	Taxom
Mesopsylla Becker-Migdi..., 1946	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Cape Town
3 Species and 2 Subspecies

Amphipsylla phaiomydis limonia Smit, 1977
Atopopsyllus cionus Poinar, 2015
Mesopsylla tuschkan mesa Argyropulo, 1946

Subnodes of Mecoptera with occurrences in Cape Town

Suborder

Siphonaptera
Latreille, 1825
Flea, Fleas

2
3
3

Families
Genera
Species

Taxom

Mecoptera (Hyatt & Arms 1891)

Links, sources and further information

Mecoptera at artfakta.se
Mecoptera at dyntaxa.se
Mecoptera at gbif.org
Mecoptera at gbif.org
Mecoptera at irmng.org
Mecoptera at itis.gov