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Halictophagidae

Jeyaraney Kathirithamby
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Containing group: Stylopidia

References

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Abdul-Nour, H. 1970. Les Strepsiptères parasites d’Homoptères dans le Sud de la France. Description d’une nouvelle espèce: Halcitophagus agalliae n. sp. Annales de Zoologie - Écologie Animale 2: 339-344.

Abdul-Nour, H. 1985. Une nouvelle espèce de Strepsiptère au Liban: Halictophagus hayari, n. sp. (Strepsiptera, Halictophagidae). Nouvelle Revue Entomologie (N.S) 2: 71-73.

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Cowley, D. R. 1984. Coriophagus causi sp. n. (Halictophagidae: Coriophaginae): a male strepsipteran from Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand of Zoology 11: 351-353.

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Drew, A. I. and Allwood, J. A. 1985. A new family of Strepsiptera parasitizing fruit flies (Tephritidae) in Australia. Systematic Entomology 10: 129-134. 47: 75-79.

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Hirashima, Y. & T. Kifune 1978. Strepsipterous parasites of Homoptera injurious to the rice plant in Sawawak, Borneo, with description of a new species(Notulae Strepsipterologicae-III). Esaki 11: 53-58.

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Kathirithamby, J. & G. Mayo-Raygoza. 2004. Halictophagus naulti sp. nov. Strepsiptera Halictophagidae), a new species parasitic in the corn leafhopper Dalbulub maidis (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from Mexico. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93: 1039-1044.

Kathirithamby, J. & V. K. Ponnama. 2003. Halictophagus palmi sp. nov. parasitic in Proutista moesta (Westwood) a vector of phytoplasma of palms in India. Journal of South East Asian Natural History 5: 101-105.

Kathirithamby & TaylorKathirithamyb, J. & Taylor, S. J. 2005. A New Species of Halictophagus (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae) from Texas, and a Checklist of Strepsiptera from the United States and Canada. Zootaxa (in press).

Kifune, T. 1981. Records of the Strepsiptera from West Malaysia, with descriptions of a new genus, Malayaxenos and five new species. Kontyu 49: 322-333.

Kifune, Y. 1983. A new species of the genus Halictophagus from Thailand, with a proposition of a new subgenus Allohalictophagus (Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae). Kontyû, Tokyo 51: 165-168.

Kifune, Y. 1986. A new Halictophagus (Strepsiptera, Halictophagidae) parasitic on the genus Stenocranus (Homoptera, Delphacidae) in Japan (Studies on the Japanese Strepsiptera XI). Kontyû, Tokyo 54: 495-497.

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Kifune, T. & Hirashima, Y.1980. Records of the Strepsiptera of Sri Lanka in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution with descriptions of seven new species. Esakia 15: 143-159.

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Yang, C-K. 1964a. Notes on the genus Halictophagus of China (Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 1: 76-81.

Yang, C-K, 1964b. Notes on the new subfamily Tridactylophaginae (Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 13: 607-613.

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Scientific Name Halictophagus australensis
Reference D. Pierce. 1911. Strepsiptera. Genera Insectorum diriges par P. Wytsman 121.
Sex Male
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