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Strepsiptera
The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species. They are endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Females of most species never emerge from the host after entering its body, finally dying inside it. The early-stage larvae do emerge because they must find an unoccupied living host, and the short-lived males must emerge to seek a receptive female in her host. They are believed to be most closely related to beetles, from which they diverged 300–350 million years ago, but do not appear in the fossil record until the mid-Cretaceous around 100 million years ago. The order is not well known to non-specialists, and the nearest they have to a common name is stylops. The name of the order translates to "twisted wing"', giving rise to other common names used for the order, twisted-wing insects and twisted-winged parasites. Adult males are rarely observed, although specimen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halteres
''Halteres'' (; singular ''halter'' or ''haltere'') (from grc, ἁλτῆρες, weights held in the hands to give an impetus in leaping) are a pair of small club-shaped organs on the body of two orders of flying insects that provide information about body rotations during flight. Insects of the large order Diptera (flies) have halteres which evolved from a pair of ancestral hindwings, while males of the much smaller order Strepsiptera (stylops)Merriam-Webster: stylops broadly: an insect of the order Strepsiptera/ref> have halteres which evolved from a pair of ancestral forewings. Halteres oscillate rapidly along with the wings and operate like vibrating structure gyroscopes: any rotation of the plane of oscillation causes a force on the vibrating halteres by the Coriolis effect. The insect detects this force with sensory organs called campaniform sensilla and chordotonal organs located at the base of the halteres and uses this information to interpret and correct its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callipharixenidae
Halictophagidae are an insect family of the order Strepsiptera The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species. They are endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Females of most species never .... Genera *'' Halictophagus'' Curtis, 1831 *'' Membracixenos'' Pierce, 1952 *'' Stenocranophilus'' Pierce, 1914 *'' wikispecies:Tridactylophagus''Subramaniam, 1932 *'' wikispecies:Coriophagus'' Kinzelbach, 1971 References Strepsiptera Insect families {{Strepsiptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halictophagidae
Halictophagidae are an insect family of the order Strepsiptera. Genera *''Halictophagus Halictophagus is a genus of insects in the family Halictophagidae. Species *'' H. abdominalis'' Kathirithamby, 1993 *'' H. acutus'' Bohart, 1943 *'' H. americanus'' Perkins, 1905 *'' H. ancylophallus'' Kifune & Hirashima, 1989 *'' H. a ...'' Curtis, 1831 *'' Membracixenos'' Pierce, 1952 *'' Stenocranophilus'' Pierce, 1914 *'' wikispecies:Tridactylophagus''Subramaniam, 1932 *'' wikispecies:Coriophagus'' Kinzelbach, 1971 References Strepsiptera Insect families {{Strepsiptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrmecolacidae
Myrmecolacidae is an insect family of the order Strepsiptera The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species. They are endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Females of most species never .... There are four genera and about 98 species in this family. Like all strepsipterans, they have a parasitic mode of development with males parasitizing ants while the females develop inside Orthoptera. The sexes differ greatly in morphology making it very difficult to match females to the better catalogued museum specimens of males. Genera *'' Caenocholax'' Pierce, 1909 *'' Lychnocolax'' *'' Myrmecolax'' *'' Stichotrema'' Hofeneder, 1910 References Strepsiptera Insect families Parasites of Hymenoptera {{Strepsiptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corioxenidae
The Corioxenidae are an insect family of the order Strepsiptera. Species in this family are parasites of heteropteran bugs including the Pentatomidae, Scutelleridae, Cydnidae, Coreidae Coreidae is a large family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. The name "Coreidae" derives from the genus ''Coreus'', which derives from the Ancient Greek () meaning bedbug. As a family, the Coreidae ar ..., and Lygaeidae. The males lack mandibles. Three subfamilies within this family are recognized. The subfamilies are separated using morphology of the males, particularly on the basis of the number of tarsi and the presence of tarsal claws. * Corioxeninae Kinzelbach, 1970 **'' Corioxenos'' Blair, 1936 **'' Floridoxenos'' Kathirithamby and Peck, 1994 **'' Loania'' Kinzelbach, 1970 **'' Perissozocera'' Johnson, 1976 **'' Australoxenos'' Kathirithamby, 1990 **'' Blissoxenos'' Miyamoto & Kifune, 1984 **'' Malayaxenos'' Kifune, 1981 **'' Mufa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylopidae
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. Members of Stylopidae are parasitic insects. Host insects of this family that are afflicted are referred to as being "stylopized". Stylopidae are associated primarily with wasps and bees 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. Life cycle As with others in the order Strepsiptera, Stylopidae larvae called triungulins enter their host and develop inside it. Females will remain inside the host. When females are ready to breed, they will push their head and brood canal opening, which is located just behind their head, out between the host insect's sclerites. Females draw males with pheromones who mate with them by means of the exposed brood canal. The eggs will hatch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahiaxenidae
''Bahiaxenos relictus'' is the sole member of the family Bahiaxenidae, a type of winged insect. It was only discovered and described in 2009 from relictual sand dunes associated with the Rio São Francisco in Bahia, Brazil. It is considered to be the most basal living member of the order Strepsiptera, so is the sister taxon to the remaining extant species Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, ''recent'') organisms. It is the study of extant taxa (singular: extant taxon): taxa (such as species, genera and families) with members st .... It is known from only a single male specimen, and its biology is unknown. References * Strepsiptera Monotypic insect genera Arthropods of Brazil {{Strepsiptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elenchidae
The Elenchidae are an insect family in the order Strepsiptera The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species. They are endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Females of most species never .... References External links Strepsiptera Insect families Taxa named by Robert Cyril Layton Perkins {{Strepsiptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mengenillidae
Mengenillidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Strepsiptera. It is the second most basal member of the order, after Bahiaxenidae. Unlike members of Stylopidia, which contains the vast majority of strepsipterans, the adult females of the family are free-living with legs. Members of the family with known hosts ('' Eoxenos'' and '' Mengenilla'') parasitise members of the family Lepismatidae Lepismatidae is a family of primitive wingless insects with about 190 described species. This family contains the two most familiar members of the order Zygentoma: the silverfish (''Lepisma saccharinum'') and the firebrat (''Thermobia domestica'' ... ( silverfish and kin). Genera After * '' Ceanocholax'' * '' Congoxenos'' Kinzelbach, 1972 * '' Eoxenos'' Peyerimhoff, 1919 * '' Mengenilla'' Hofeneder, 1910 * '' Trilineatoxenos'' de Carvalho, 2007 * '' Yemengenilla'' Luna de Carvalho, 1992 References {{Taxonbar, from=Q11777369 Strepsiptera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insect Wing
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hindwings, respectively, though a few insects lack hindwings, even rudiments. The wings are strengthened by a number of longitudinal veins, which often have cross-connections that form closed "cells" in the membrane (extreme examples include the dragonflies and lacewings). The patterns resulting from the fusion and cross-connection of the wing veins are often diagnostic for different evolutionary lineages and can be used for identification to the family or even genus level in many orders of insects. Physically, some insects move their flight muscles directly, others indirectly. In insects with direct flight, the wing muscles directly attach to the wing base, so that a small downward movement of the wing base lifts the wing itself upward. Tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xenidae
Xenidae is a family of twisted-winged insects in the order Strepsiptera The Strepsiptera are an order of insects with eleven extant families that include about 600 described species. They are endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Females of most species never .... There are about 13 genera and more than 120 described species in Xenidae. Genera These 13 genera belong to the family Xenidae: * '' Brasixenos'' Kogan & Oliveira, 1966 * '' Deltoxenos'' Benda et al, 2022 * '' Eupathocera'' Pierce, 1908 * '' Leionotoxenos'' Pierce, 1909 * '' Macroxenos'' Schultze, 1925 * '' Nipponoxenos'' (Kifune & Maeta, 1975) * '' Paragioxenos'' Ogloblin, 1923 * '' Paraxenos'' Saunders, 1872 * '' Pseudoxenos'' Saunders, 1872 * '' Sphecixenos'' Benda et al, 2022 * '' Tachytixenos'' Pierce, 1911 * '' Tuberoxenos'' Benda et al, 2022 * '' Xenos'' Rossi, 1793 References Strepsiptera {{strepsiptera-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compound Eye
A compound eye is a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It may consist of thousands of ommatidia, which are tiny independent photoreception units that consist of a cornea, lens, and photoreceptor cells which distinguish brightness and color. The image perceived by this arthropod eye is a combination of inputs from the numerous ommatidia, which are oriented to point in slightly different directions. Compared with single-aperture eyes, compound eyes have poor image resolution; however, they possess a very large view angle and the ability to detect fast movement and, in some cases, the polarization of light. Because a compound eye is made up of a collection of ommatidia, each with its own lens, light will enter each ommatidium instead of using a single entrance point. The individual light receptors behind each lens are then turned on and off due to a series of changes in the light intensity during movement or when an object in moving, creating a fli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
