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Mecoptera (from the Greek: mecos = "long", ptera = "wings") is an order of insects in the superorder Holometabola with about six hundred species in nine families worldwide. . Mecopterans are sometimes called scorpionflies after their largest family, Panorpidae, in which the males have enlarged genitals raised over the body that look similar to the stingers of scorpions, and long beaklike
Bittacidae is a family of scorpionflies commonly called hangingflies or hanging scorpionflies. The genus Bittacus , comprising approximately 75% of all species within the family, occurs worldwide. Other genera are mostly confined to South America or Australia.
Uroctonus mordax, known generally as the California forest scorpion or western forest scorpion, is a species of scorpion in the family Vaejovidae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Most notably, this species is almost entirely restricted to California's Redwood Forests and Oak Woodlands , and is considered a foundational species in those ecosystems. [ 3 ]
"Butterflies of San Francisco Bay Area". Wildlife of San Francisco Bay. 2019 "California's Pest Snails and Slugs". University of California. 2021 "California Terrestrial and Vernal Pool Invertebrates of Conservation Priority". California Department of Fish and Wildlife. 12 June 2017
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This is a list of species endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area, the nine California counties which border on San Francisco Bay. The area has a number of highly diverse, local bioregions, including San Bruno Mountain .
Boreidae, commonly called snow scorpionflies, or in the British Isles, snow fleas (no relation to the snow flea Hypogastrura nivicola) are a very small family of scorpionflies, containing only around 30 species, all of which are boreal or high-altitude species in the Northern Hemisphere.