Stylopidae
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Stylopidae are an insect family of the order Strepsiptera
. This family contains more than 250 species.
Strepsiptera
The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with ten families making up about 600 species...
. This family contains more than 250 species.
Genera
- Crawfordia Pierce, 1908
- Eurystylops Bohart, 1943
- Halictoxenos Pierce, 1908
- Hylecthrus Saunders, 1850
- Melittostylops Kinzelbach, 1971
- Pseudoxenos Saunders, 1872
- Stylops Kirby, 1802
- XenosXenos (genus)Xenos is a genus of insects belonging to the Stylopidae family. The word derives from the Greek word for strange.A species of the genus is Xenos vesparum, first described by Pietro Rossi in 1793The females are permanent entomophagous endoparasites of Polistes paper wasps. They dwell their whole...
Rossi, 1793