Species list, Checklist of Order Mecoptera (Hanging flies) for La Selva Biological Station (Cordillera Volcanica Central, Costa Rica)

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 La Selva Biological Station (Cordillera Volcanica Central, Costa Rica)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	244 2546 4105	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	243 2545 4105	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	231 2505 4047	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	177 2220 3782	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 La Selva Biological Station
4 Families width 4 Species and 1 Subspecies

Bittacidae Handlirsch, 1906	Hanging scorpionflies	1	Species	Taxom
Ischnopsyllidae Wahlgren, 1907	Bat fleas	1	Species	Taxom
Leptopsyllidae Rothschild &..., 1915	Bird fleas	1	Species	Taxom
Pygiopsyllidae Wagner, 1939		1	Species	Taxom

Genera for La Selva Biological Station
4 Genera with 4 Species

Kalobittacus Esben-Petersen, 1996	1	Species	Taxom
Nycteridopsylla Oudemans, 1908	1	Species	Taxom
Peromyscopsylla Fox, 1915	1	Species	Taxom
Pygiopsylla Rothschild, 1922	1	Species	Taxom

Species list for La Selva Biological Station
4 Species and 1 Subspecies

Kalobittacus inornatus Byers, 1996
Nycteridopsylla (Nycteridopsylla) eusarca Dampf, 1908	A bat flea
Peromyscopsylla hesperomys adelpha Rothschild, 1915
Pygiopsylla hoplia Jordan & Rot..., 1922	Southern kiore flea

Subnodes of Mecoptera with occurrences in La Selva Biological Station

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