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''Xenos'' is a genus of insects belonging to the family Xenidae. The word derives from the Greek word for strange. A species of the genus is ''
Xenos vesparum
Xenos vesparum is a parasitic insect species of the order Strepsiptera that are endoparasites of paper wasps in the genus Polistes (most commonly ''Polistes dominula)'' that was first described in 1793. Like other members of this family, ''X. ve ...
'', first described by Pietro Rossi in 1793. The females are permanent entomophagous
Entomophagy (, from Greek ἔντομον ', 'insect', and φαγεῖν ', 'to eat') is the practice of eating insects. An alternative term is insectivory. Terms for organisms that practice entomophagy are ''entomophage'' and ''insectivore' ...
endoparasite
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has c ...
s of ''Polistes
Wasps of the cosmopolitan genus ''Polistes'' (the only genus in the tribe Polistini) are the most familiar of the polistine wasps, and are the most common type of paper wasp in North America. Walter Ebeling coined the vernacular name "umbrel ...
'' paper wasps. They dwell their whole lives in the abdomen
The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates. The abdomen is the front part of the abdominal segment of the tors ...
s of wasp
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...
s.
Species
These 33 species belong to the genus ''Xenos'': * '' Xenos afer'' Pasteels, 1950 (Africa) * '' Xenos americanus'' (Brèthes, 1923) (South America) * ''Xenos argentinus __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Brèthes, 1923 (South America)
* '' Xenos boharti'' Hofmann, 1965 (South America)
* ''Xenos bohlsi __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Hoffmann, 1914 (South America)
* '' Xenos bonairensis'' Brèthes, 1923 (South America)
* '' Xenos circularis'' Kifune & Maeta, 1985 (Asia)
* ''Xenos colombiensis __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Cook, Mayorga-Ch & Sarmiento, 2020
* ''Xenos dianshuiwengi __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Yang, 1999
* ''Xenos formosanus __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Kifune & Maeta, 1985 (Asia)
* '' Xenos hamiltoni'' Kathirithamby & Hughes, 2006 (Central America and Mexico)
* '' Xenos hebraei'' Kinzelbach, 1978 (Palearctic)
* '' Xenos hospitus'' Oliveira & Kogan, 1962 (South America)
* '' Xenos hunteri'' (Pierce, 1909) (North America)
* '' Xenos indespectus'' Oliveira & Kogan, 1962 (South America)
* '' Xenos iviei'' Kifune, 1983
* '' Xenos kifunei'' Cook & Mathison, 1997 (North America)
* '' Xenos moutoni'' Buysson, 1903 (Southern Asia and temperate Asia)
* '' Xenos niger'' Pasteels, 1950 (Africa)
* '' Xenos nigrescens'' Brues, 1903 (North America and South America)
* '' Xenos oxyodontes'' Nakase & Kato, 2013 (Southern Asia)
* ''Xenos pallidus __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Brues, 1903 (North America)
* ''Xenos peckii __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Kirby, 1813
* '' Xenos peruensis'' Kifune, 1979 (South America)
* '' Xenos provesparum'' Kifune, 1986 (Southern Asia and tropical Asia)
* '' Xenos ropalidiae'' (Kinzelbach, 1975)
* '' Xenos rostratus'' Trois, 1984 (South America)
* ''Xenos rubiginosi __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' (Pierce, 1909) (North America)
* ''Xenos stuckenbergi __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Pasteels, 1956 (Africa)
* ''Xenos vesparum
Xenos vesparum is a parasitic insect species of the order Strepsiptera that are endoparasites of paper wasps in the genus Polistes (most commonly ''Polistes dominula)'' that was first described in 1793. Like other members of this family, ''X. ve ...
'' (Rossi, 1793) (Palearctic and Africa)
* '' Xenos yamaneorum'' Kifune & Maeta, 1985 (Asia)
* ''Xenos yangi __NOTOC__
Xenos may refer to:
* Xenos (Greek), a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien"
* Xenos (insect), a genus of insects in the order Strepsiptera
* Xenos (graphics chip), a custom graphics processing unit (GPU) designed by ATI, used in the ...
'' Dong, Liu & Li, 2022
* '' Xenos zavattarii'' (Pierce, 1911) (Africa)
References
Strepsiptera Endoparasites Insect genera Taxa named by Pietro Rossi Parasites of Hymenoptera {{Parasite-insect-stub