Xenos (insect)

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Xenos
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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, spending their whole lives in the wasp's abdomen.

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

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

References

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