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Definition of Stylops

Stylops
Stylops Sty"lops, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a pillar + ?, ?, the eye.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See Strepsiptera.
Stylops
Pseudohalter Pseu`do*hal"ter, n.; pl. Pseudohalteres. [NL. See Pseudo-, and Halteres.] (Zo["o]l.) One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects (Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.

Meaning of Stylops from wikipedia

- The name "stylops", used without a capital "s", refers as a common name to any member of the order Strepsiptera, and not only the genus Stylops. Males are...
- Stylops melittae is a species of the order Strepsiptera of flying insects, that parasitize various species of sand bees (Andrena). The female Stylops...
- non-specialists, and the nearest they have to a common name is stylops, in reference to the genus Stylops. The name of the order translates to "twisted wing", giving...
- Video of traumatic insemination in Stylops ovinae (Strepsiptera)...
- ancestral hindwings, while males of the much smaller order Strepsiptera (stylops) have halteres which evolved from a pair of ancestral forewings. Halteres...
- 229–243. doi:10.1007/s00435-007-0043-3. S2CID 46359462. "Strepsiptera: Stylops". Insects and their Allies. CSIRO. Retrieved 25 May 2016. Langer, Mattias...
- Saunders, 1850 Melittostylops Kinzelbach, 1971 Pseudoxenos Saunders, 1872 Stylops Kirby, 1802 Xenos Rossi, 1793 †Jantarostylops Kulicka, 2001 (Baltic amber...
- cleptoparasite of this species but that is regarded as unlikely. The strepsipteran Stylops melittae has been recorded as a parasitoid of A. vaga. "Sand und Erd Bienen...
- Zimbabwe. Malloch, John Russell (1932). "Notes on exotic Diptera (2)". Stylops. 1: 112–126. Smith, Kenneth G.V.; Vockeroth, J.R. (1980). Crosskey, R.W...
- Munro, H.K. (1935). "Some interesting new African Trypetidae (Dipt.)". Stylops. 4: 4–7. Norrbom, A.L.; Carroll, L.E.; Thompson, F.C.; White, I.M; Freidberg...