living organisms see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Superkingdom Eukaryotae see Domain Eukaryota Chatton, 1925
     Kingdom Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
       Subkingdom Eumetazoa Butschli, 1910 see [unranked] Eumetazoa Bütschli, 1910
         Phylum Arthropoda Siebold, 1848 - arthropods
           Subphylum Uniramia Snodgrass, 1935 see Phylum Arthropoda Siebold, 1848
             Class Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 - insects
               Subclass Pterygota Lang, 1888 - winged insects see Infraclass Pterygota Lang, 1888
                 Infraclass Neoptera Martynov, 1923 - modern, wing-folding insects see Division Neoptera Martynov, 1923
                   Superorder Holometabola - holometabolans see Subdivision Endopterygota Sharp, 1899
                     Order Mecoptera Packard, 1886 - scorpion flies
                       Suborder Protomecoptera (Tillyard, 1917)
                         1 Family †Eomeropidae (Cockerell, 1909)
                         2 Family Meropeidae Handlirsch, 1906
                         3 Family Notiothaumidae Ebsen-Petersen, 1915