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Strepsiptera
Temporal range: Middle Cretaceous - Recent
Strepsiptera-halictophagida.gif
male
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Strepsiptera

Kirby, 1813

Strepsiptera is a order of insects, any of about 600 species of small insects that are notable for their bizarre form of parasitism. Strepsipterans are parasitic in planthoppers, leafhoppers, treehoppers, froghoppers, bees, and other insects.

Description

Mature females are usually wingless and saclike, whereas the males have large, fanlike hindwings, short, clublike forewings, bulging eyes, and comblike antennae.

Images for kids

  • Mengenilla moldrzyki

    Mengenilla moldrzyki (Mengenilidae)

  • Odynerus spinipes^ Vespidae. See parasite note - Flickr - gailhampshire

    A wasp (Odynerus spinipes) with a small portion of a strepsipteran's body protruding from its abdomen

  • Stylops melittae m3

    Stylops melittae male

See also

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