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stylops

(ˈstaɪlɒps)
n, pl -lopes (-ləˌpiːz)
(Animals) any insect of the order Strepsiptera, including the genus Stylops, living as a parasite in other insects, esp bees and wasps: the females remain in the body of the host but the males move between hosts
[C19: New Latin, from Greek, from stulos a pillar + ōps an eye, from the fact that the male insect has stalked compound eyes]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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First sex pheromone of the order Strepsiptera: (3R,5R,9R)-3,5,9-trimethyldodecanal in Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802.
Light trap capture of live Elenchus koebelei (Strepsiptera: Elenchidae)
Melittostylops Kinzelbach is the only genus of this family known to parasitize members of the bee family Melittidae, as all other extant stylopids (Crawfbrdia, Eurystylops, Halictoxenos, Hylecthrus, Stylops and Ulrich/a) parasitize members of the classic short-tongued bee families: Colletidae, Halictidae and Andrenidae.
These strepsipterans match the figure of Melittostylops hesperaparium illustrated by Kinzelbach (1971) and differ from the various female Crawfordia, Ewystylops, Halictoxenos, and Stylops we have encountered in other Texas bees.
Melittostylops (strepsiptera: stylopidae): a genus of twisted wing insects new to Texas with notes on stylopization of its host

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