Database details
| Full name: | Strepsiptera Database: Global Strepsiptera Database NEW! |
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| Short name: | Strepsiptera Database |
| Version: | 1, Sep 2011 |
| Release date: | 2011-09-16 |
| Authors/editors: | Kathirithamby J. |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Animalia - Arthropoda - Insecta - Strepsiptera |
| English name of the group: | Twisted-winged parasites |
| Number of species: | 594 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 2 |
| Number of synonyms: | 222 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 818 |
| Abstract: | Strepsiptera is an order of holometabolous insects with eleven families (with one fossil genus), making up about six hundred species so far, with several cryptic species still to be described. The 1st instar larvae and the short-lived adult males are the only free-living stages (except in the family Mengenillidae). The larval stages and the neotenic females are endoparasites. The hosts include insects such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, cockroaches, grasshoppers, mantids, crickets and fruitflies. |
| Organization: | Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK |
| Website: |
http://rameau.snv.jussieu.fr/cgi-bin/strepsiptera.pl |