- Mecoptera, order Mecoptera - an order of carnivorous insects usually having long membranous wings and long beaklike heads with chewing mouths at the tip
--1 is a kind of animal order
--1 is a member of Insecta, class Insecta, Hexapoda, class Hexapoda
--1 has members:mecopteran; Panorpidae, family Panorpidae; Bittacidae, family Bittacidae