NOMEN: Metamecoptera Crampton 1930: 98 [G.C. Crampton. The wings of the remarkable archaic mecopteron Notiothauma reedi McLachlan with remarks on their Protoblattoid affinities. – Psyche, 1930, 37 (1): 83-103]
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Crampton 1930):
Bittacoidea 
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM:
= Raptipedia Willmann 1987
NON-MONOSEMANTIC CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYM (distinctly including †Permotipula):
= Raptipediomorpha Bechly & Schweigert 2000
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Bittacus/fg
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Bittacus (sensu Latreille 1802), Bittacusidae, Bittacidae, Bittacoidea
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic position of Metamecoptera:
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modern phylogenetic classification: |
older classification: |
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Enteracantha (Panorpa/fg1) |
pm.Mecaptera
(Panorpa/fg1) Nannomecoptera (Nannochorista/fg1) Metamecoptera (Bittacus/fg1)
Raphioptera (Boreus/fg1) |