Global Strepsiptera Database in the Catalogue of Life
Citation
Kathirithamby J. (2019). Strepsiptera Database: Global Strepsiptera Database (version May 2017). In: Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2019). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.Description
Strepsiptera database is a database on Strepsiptera parasitoïd group. Strepsiptera (commonly known as twisted-winged parasites) is an order of holometabolous insects with twelve families (one fossil genus undescribed as a family), making up about six hundred species so far with several cryptic species 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.Taxonomic Coverages
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Kathirithamby J.originator
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK
homepage: http://rameau.snv.jussieu.fr/cgi-bin/strepsiptera.pl
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Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
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Species 2000 Secretariat
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Kathirithamby J.
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