Stylops

Stylops
Stylops melittae male; note the halteres in front of the wings
Stylops melittae females protruding from the abdomen of an Andrenid bee
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Strepsiptera
Family: Stylopidae
Genus: Stylops
Kirby, 1802
Stylops species: Adult male at top. Female and pupa at bottom right, B & C

Stylops[1] is a genus of obligately endoparasitic insects in the family Stylopidae. Hosts are typically members of the order Hymenoptera.

The name "stylops", used without a capital "s", refers as a common name to any member of the order Strepsiptera, and not only the genus Stylops.[2]

  1. ^ Kirby W (1802) Monographia apum Angliæ; or, An attempt to divide into their natural genera and families, such species of the Linnean genus Apis as have been discovered in England; with descriptions and observations. To which are prefixed some introductory remarks upon the class Hymenoptera, and a synoptical table of the nomenclature of the external parts of these insects. J. Raw, Ipswich, London. Vol. 2: 258 pp.
  2. ^ Merriam-Webster: stylops broadly: an insect of the order Strepsiptera |[1]

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