Stylops

Stylops[1] is a genus of obligately endoparasitic insects in the family Stylopidae. Hosts are typically members of the order Hymenoptera. The official seal, and later logo, of the Royal Entomological Society features a male Stylops.[2]

Stylops
Stylops species: Adult male at top. Female and pupa at bottom right, B & C
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Strepsiptera
Family: Stylopidae
Genus: Stylops
Kirby, 1802
Stylops melittae Male; note the halteres in front of the wings
Stylops melittae females protruding from the abdomen of an Andrenid bee

The name "stylops", used without a capital "s", refers as a common name to any member of the order Strepsiptera, and not only the genus Stylops.[3]

Species

Many[4] including:

  • Stylops analis Perkins, 1918
  • Stylops andrenaphilus Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops ater Reichert, 1914
  • Stylops aterrimus Newport, 1851
  • Stylops borcherti Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops dalii Curtis, 1828
  • Stylops deserticola Medvedev, 1970
  • Stylops dinizi Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops friesei Kirby, 1802
  • Stylops gwynanae Günther, 1957
  • Stylops hammella Perkins, 1918
  • Stylops ibericus Luna de Carvalho, 1969
  • Stylops kinzelbachi Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops liliputanus Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops lusohispanicus Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops madrilensis Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops maxillaris Pasteels, 1949
  • Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802
  • Stylops moniliaphagus Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops nevinsoni Perkins, 1918
  • Stylops obenbergeri Ogloblin, 1923
  • Stylops obsoletus Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops pacificus Bohart, 1936
  • Stylops paracuellus Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops pasteelsi Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops praecocis Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops risleri Kinzelbach, 1967
  • Stylops ruthenicus Schkaff, 1925
  • Stylops salamancanus Luna de Carvalho, 1974
  • Stylops spreta Perkins, 1918
  • Stylops thwaitesi Perkins, 1918
  • Stylops ventricosae Pierce, 1909
  • Stylops warnckei Luna de Carvalho, 1974

References
  1. Kirby W (1802) Monographia apum Angliæ; or, An attempt to divide into their natural genera and families, such species of the Linnean genus Apis as have been discovered in England; with descriptions and observations. To which are prefixed some introductory remarks upon the class Hymenoptera, and a synoptical table of the nomenclature of the external parts of these insects. J. Raw, Ipswich, London. Vol. 2: 258 pp.
  2. https://www.royensoc.co.uk/entomology/orders/stylops
  3. Merriam-Webster: stylops broadly: an insect of the order Strepsiptera |
  4. GBIF: Stylops Kirby, 1802
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