Stylopidae
| Stylopidae Temporal range:
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| Stylops childreni | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Strepsiptera |
| Family: | Stylopidae Kirby, 1813 |
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Stylopidae is a family of twisted-winged insects in the order Strepsiptera. There are about 15 genera and more than 330 described species in Stylopidae.[1][2][3]
Members of Stylopidae are parasitic insects. Host insects of this family that are afflicted are referred to as being "stylopized".[4]
Stylopidae are associated primarily with wasps and bees[3] but are known to also use members of Blattodea, Mantodea, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera, and other Hymenoptera as hosts. Stylopized hosts often display a variety of physical and behavioral changes.[5]
Genera[]
- Pierce, 1908
- Bohart, 1943
- Halictoxenos Pierce, 1908
- Saunders, 1850
- Kinzelbach, 1971
- Saunders, 1872
- Stylops Kirby, 1802
- Xenos Rossi, 1793
- † Kulicka, 2001 (Baltic amber, Priabonian)[6]
References[]
- ^ a b "Stylopidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "Stylopidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ a b "Family Stylopidae information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
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Salt, George; Bequaert, Joseph (1929). "Stylopized Vespidae". 36 (3). doi:10.1155/1929/78563. Cite journal requires
|journal=(help) - ^ "Stylopidia Host Relationships". tolweb.org. Retrieved 2020-05-03.
- ^ R. Kulicka. 2001. New genera and species of Strepsiptera from the Baltic amber. Prace Muzeum Ziemi 46:3-16
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