Xenos (insect)

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Xenos
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Strepsiptera
Suborder: Stylopidia
Family: Xenidae
Genus: Xenos
Rossi, 1793

Xenos is a genus of insects belonging to the family Xenidae. [1] The word derives from the Greek word for strange. [2] The type species of the genus is Xenos vesparum , first described by Pietro Rossi in 1793. [3] [4] The females are permanent entomophagous endoparasites of Polistes paper wasps. They dwell their whole lives in the abdomens of wasps.

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Four male pupae are visible partially emerged from the wasp's abdomen; likely Xenos peckii, which is a parasite of the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus. Xenos peckii - inat 48788225.jpg
Four male pupae are visible partially emerged from the wasp's abdomen; likely Xenos peckii , which is a parasite of the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus .

Species

These 33 species belong to the genus Xenos: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Benda, D; Pohl, H; Nakase, Y; Beutel, R; et al. (2022). "A generic classification of Xenidae (Strepsiptera) based on the morphology of the female cephalothorax and male cephalotheca with a preliminary checklist of species". ZooKeys (1093): 1–134. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1093.72339 . PMC   9010403 . PMID   35586542.
  2. ↑ Craig, John (1859). "A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language". Routledge. p. 1090.
  3. ↑ R. Dallai; L. Beani; J. Kathirithamby; P. Lupetti & B. A. Afzelius (2003), "New findings on sperm ultrastructure of Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta)", Tissue and Cell, 35 (1): 19–27, doi:10.1016/S0040-8166(02)00099-X, PMID   12589726
  4. ↑ Fabiola Giusti; Luigi Dallai; Laura Beani; Fabio Manfredini & Romano Dallai (2007), "The midgut ultrastructure of the endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Insecta, Strepsiptera) during post-embryonic development and stable carbon isotopic analyses of the nutrient uptake", Arthropod Structure & Development, 36 (2): 183–197, doi:10.1016/j.asd.2007.01.001, PMID   18089098


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