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Partial List of Strepsiptera Species

Jeyaraney Kathirithamby

Partial species list of Strepsiptera, updated since Kinzelbach 1971.

Order: Strepsiptera Kirby 1813

Suborder: Incertae Sedis

Suborder: Mengenillidia Kinzelbach 1969

Suborder: Stylopidia Kinzelbach 1969a

References

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Pierce, W. D. 1914. Description of two new species of Strepsiptera parasitic on sugar cane insects. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 16: 126-129.

Pierce, W. D. 1918. The comparative morphology of the order Strepsiptera together with records and descriptions of insects. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54: 391-501.

Pierce, W. D. 1952. A new strepsipterous parasite of Membracidae. Bulletin of the South Californian Academy of Sciences, 51: 4–8.

Pierce, W. D. 1961. A new genus and species of Strepsiptera parasitic on a leafhopper vector of a virus disease of rice and other Gramineae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 54: 467-474.

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