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Strepsiptera

Twisted-winged Parasites (Strepsiptera)

Order: Strepsiptera

Description: The Strepsiptera (known in older literature as twisted-winged parasites) are an order of parasitic insects with nine families making up about 600 species. Their hosts include bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches. Male Strepsiptera have wings, legs, eyes, and antennae, and look like flies, though they generally have no useful mouthparts. Females, in all families except the Mengenillidae, never leave their host and lack wings and legs. Males have a very short adult lifetime (usually less than five hours) and do not feed as adults. Many of their mouth parts are modified into sensory structures.

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-[[Mengenillidae]]<br>
-[[Mengeidae]]<br>
-[[Stylopidae]]<br>
-[[Bohartillidae]]<br>
-[[Corioxenidae]]<br>
-[[Halictophagidae]]<br>
-[[Callipharixenidae]]<br>
-[[Elenchidae]]<br>
-[[Myrmecolacidae]]
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-The '''Strepsiptera''' are a small (~300 species) order of [[insect|insects]]. All of them are [[parasite]]s in other insects; their hosts include [[bee]]s, [[wasp]]s, [[silverfish]], [[cockroach]]es, and bugs. There are nine families:
-* Mengenillidae
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-* Mengeidae
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-* Stylopidae
+The '''Strepsiptera''' (known in older literature as ''twisted-winged parasites'') are an order of parasitic insects with nine families making up about 600 species. Their hosts include bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches.
-* Bohartillidae
-* Corioxenidae
-* Halictophagidae
-* Callipharixenidae
-* Elenchidae
-* Myrmecolacidae
-Male Strepsiptera have wings, legs, eyes, and antennae, and look like flies, though they generally have no useful mouthparts. Females never leave their hosts, except in the Mengenillidae, and have no wings. Females of some species show [[neoteny]]. Males have a very short adult lifetime (usually less than 5 hours) and during they do not feed. They mate with a female (whose anterior region extrudes through the host's body). Sperm pasts through an opening in the head of the female and from there directly into the body cavity (Haemocoel).
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+Male Strepsiptera have wings, legs, eyes, and antennae, and look like flies, though they generally have no useful mouthparts. Females, in all families except the Mengenillidae, never leave their host and lack wings and legs. Males have a very short adult lifetime (usually less than five hours) and do not feed as adults. Many of their mouth parts are modified into sensory structures.
-Strepsipteran eyes are unlike those of any other insect. Instead of [[compound eye]]s consisting of hundreds of [[ommatidia]], each of which sees one pixel, the strepsipteran eyes consist of a few dozen lenses, each with its own individual [[retina]].
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-The order, named by Kirby in 1831, is named for the hind wings (twisted wing), which are held at a twisted angle when at rest. The forewings are reduced to [[halteres]].
-Strepsiptera present an enigma to taxonomists. Some believe they are the sister group to the beetle families [[Meloidae]] and [[Rhipiphoridae]], which have similar parasitic development and forewing reduction; some say they are the sister group to the [[beetle]]s; some say they are the sister group to the [[flies]], which have hindwing halteres.
-==External link==
-*http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Strepsiptera
-*http://www.strepsiptera.uni-rostock.de/e/strepsiptera.html
-[[category:insects]]