Editing Mecoptera (section)

===Taxonomic history===
The European scorpionfly was named ''[[Panorpa communis]]'' by [[Linnaeus]] in [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]].<ref>[[Linnæus]], Carolus.  1758. ''[[Systema naturae]] per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis''. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae [= Stockholm].  Vol. Tomus I,  Editio decima, reformata: i–ii, 1–824.</ref>
The Mecoptera were named by [[Alpheus Hyatt]] and [[Jennie Maria Arms Sheldon|Jennie Maria Arms]] in 1891.<ref name="HyattArms1891">{{cite journal |last1=Hyatt |first1=Alpheus |last2=Arms |first2=Jennie Maria |title=A novel diagrammatic representation of the orders of insects |journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |date=1891 |volume=6 |issue=177 |pages=11–13 |doi=10.1155/1891/39454|doi-access=free }}</ref> The name is from the [[Greek language|Greek]], ''mecos'' meaning long, and ''ptera'' meaning wings.<ref>{{Cite book|title=A Dictionary of Entomology|journal=Nature|volume=91|issue=2267|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IcmCeAjp6cC&pg=PA858|year=2011|isbn=978-1-84593-542-9|page=858|bibcode=1913Natur..91S.134.|doi=10.1038/091134c0|s2cid=3947767}}</ref>
The families of Mecoptera are well accepted by taxonomists but their relationships have been debated. In 1987, R. Willman treated the Mecoptera as a [[clade]], containing the Boreidae as sister to the Meropeidae,<ref>{{cite journal |author=Willman, R. |date=1987 |title=The phylogenetic system of the Mecoptera |journal=Systematic Entomology |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=519–524 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.1987.tb00222.x|bibcode=1987SysEn..12..519W |s2cid=86349146 }}</ref> but in 2002 [[Michael F. Whiting]] declared the Mecoptera so-defined as paraphyletic, with the Boreidae as sister to another order, the [[Siphonaptera]] (fleas).<ref name=Whiting2002/>