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                                  CLASSIFICATION OF STREPSIPTERA

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Families in Green color                                            Strepsiptera Details

 

Insecta:   Holometabola

Order:  Strepsiptera Kirby

        Family:  Protoxenidae Pohl et al. (extinct)

        Family:  Cretostylopidae Kathirithamby & Engel

 

   Suborder Mengenillidia Kinzelbach

        Family:  Mengeidae Pierce (extinct)

        Family:  Bahiaxenidae Bravo et al.

        Family:  Mengenillidae Hofeneder

 

   Suborder:  Stylopidia Kinzelbach

        Family:  Corioxenidae Kinzelbach (+1 fossil species)

 

      Infraorder:  Stylopiformia Kinzelbach

        Family:  Myrmecolacidae  Saunders

                           (Stichotrematidae = Synonym)  (+13 fossil species)

        Family:  Lychnocolacidae Kathirithambry & Engel ?

        Family:  Stylopidae Kirby (+2 fossil species)

        Family:  Xenidae Saunders

        Family:  Bohartillidae Kinzelbach (+3 fossil species)

        Family:  Elenchidae Perkins (+1 fossil)

        Family:  Halictophagidae

        Family:  Callipharixenidae

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Details of Insect Taxonomic Groups

 

          Examples of beneficial species occur in almost every insect order, and considerable information on morphology and habits has been assembled.  Therefore, the principal groups of insect parasitoids and predators provide details that refer to the entire class Insecta.  These details are available at <taxnames.htm>.