[1] Mature individuals inhabit vegetation.

[1] Adults are scavengers, feeding on dead and occasionally dying invertebrates, inserting their mouthparts into pre-existing holes in the body cavity to consume internal soft parts, very occasionally consuming the entire exoskeleton if present.

Adults are startled and will run away at any sign of movement from prey.

[3] The genus name is derived from Panorpidae, a related family, and Ancient Greek apteros "wingless".

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