- and bees,
while the
largest family of
strepsipterans, the Stylopidae, with over 27% of all
described strepsipterans,
targets bees exclusively. Very rarely...
- only two wings:
strepsipterans, or stylops; they are the only
other organisms that
possess two
wings and two halteres. The
strepsipterans have
adapted their...
- help dis**** its
spores in a
microhabitat that best
suits the fungus.
Strepsipteran parasites also mani****te
their ant host to
climb gr**** stems, to help...
- gr**** stalks,
positions that are risky, but
favour the
emergence of the
strepsipterans.
Among pathogens of mammals, the
rabies virus affects the host's central...
- parasitized.
Males were not
stylopized (parasitization by
stylopid strepsipterans, such as X. moutoni) at all. The
major consequence of
being parasitized...
-
entire image-forming retina.
Several of
these eyelets together form the
strepsipteran compound eye,
which is
similar to the 'schizochroal'
compound eyes of...
-
pensylvanicus is one of
several species of
Sphex to be
parasitized by the
strepsipteran Paraxenos westwoodi.
Sphex pensylvanicus was the
subject of the first...
-
moults into its
second stage without ecdysis, a
feature only seen in
strepsipterans. The
second and
third larval stages grow extensively, but slowly, possibly...
-
density and activity, it has a
small effect on a
colony po****tion. The
strepsipteran insect Caenocholax fenyesi is
known to
infect male ants of this species...
-
groups are more
intimately ****ociated with Polistes; this
includes strepsipterans in the
family Stylopidae (genus Xenos),
wasps of the
genus Elasmus (formerly...
