Species list, Checklist of Order Mecoptera (Hanging flies) for Chicago (Northern Illinois, Illinois, USA)

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 Chicago (Northern Illinois, Illinois, USA)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	226 1116 1610	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	226 1116 1610	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	214 1082 1553	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	164 961 1404	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Mecoptera Hyatt & Arms, 1891 Hanging flies, Hangingflies, Scorpion flies, Scorpionflies	4 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Chicago
4 Families width 4 Species and 1 Subspecies

Bittacidae Handlirsch, 1906	Hanging scorpionflies	1	Species	Taxom
Ceratophyllidae Dampf, 1908	Bird Fleas	1	Species	Taxom
Ischnopsyllidae Wahlgren, 1907	Bat fleas	1	Species	Taxom
Rhopalopsyllidae Oudemans, 1909	Marsupial fleas	1	Species	Taxom

Genera for Chicago
4 Genera with 4 Species

Bittacus Latreille, 1861	1	Species	Taxom
Mesopsylla Becker-Migdi..., 1946	1	Species	Taxom
Nycteridopsylla Oudemans, 1908	1	Species	Taxom
Polygenis Jordan, 1950	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Chicago
4 Species and 1 Subspecies

Bittacus strigosus Hagen, 1861	Heterosporous ferns
Mesopsylla tuschkan mesa Argyropulo, 1946
Nycteridopsylla (Nycteridopsylla) eusarca Dampf, 1908	A bat flea
Polygenis brachinus Jordan, 1950

Subnodes of Mecoptera with occurrences in Chicago

Suborder	Pistillifera Willmann, 1987	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom
Suborder	Siphonaptera Latreille, 1825 Flea, Fleas	3 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