Xenos (insect)

Xenos
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Strepsiptera
Family: Stylopidae
Subfamily: Xeninae
Genus: Xenos

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

References

  1. Craig, John (1859). "A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language". Routledge. p. 1090.
  2. R. Dallai, L. Beani, J. Kathirithamby, P. Lupetti and B. A. Afzelius (2003), "New findings on sperm ultrastructure of Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta)", Tissue and Cell 35 (1): 19, doi:10.1016/S0040-8166(02)00099-X, PMID 12589726
  3. Fabiola Giusti, Luigi Dallai, Laura Beani, Fabio Manfredini and 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, doi:10.1016/j.asd.2007.01.001, PMID 18089098
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