Myrmecolacidae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Stylopoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Strepsiptera Subordo: Stylopidia Superfamilia: Stylopoidea

Familia: Myrmecolacidae
Genera (5): Caenocholax – Myrmecolax – Stichotrema – †Kronomyrmecolax – †Palaeomyrmecolax

Name

Myrmecolacidae Saunders, 1872

References

Primary references

• Saunders, S.S. 1872. Stylopidarum, ordinem Strepsipterorum Kirbii constituentium, mihi tamen potius Coleopterorum Familiae, Rhipiphoridis Meloïdisque propinquae, Monographia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1872: 1–48. BHL.

Additional references

• Kathirithamby, J., Solulu, T. & Caudwell, R. 2001. Descriptions of female Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera) parasitic in Orthoptera (Tettigoniidae) in Papua New Guinea. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 144(2): 187–196. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-900000084 Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Kathirithamby, J., Hayward, A., McMahon, D.P., Ferreira, R.S., Andreazze, R., Andrade, H.T. de A. & Fresneau, D. 2009 (Online) 2010 (Print). Conspecifics of a heterotrophic heteronomous species of Strepsiptera (Insecta) are matched by molecular characterization. Systematic Entomology 35(2): 234–242. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00507.x Reference page. 
• Carpenter, F.M. 1992. Superclass Hexapoda. In: Kaesler, R.L. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part R, Arthropoda 4, Volumes 3 and 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. xxi + 655 pp. ISBN 0-8137-3019-8. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5370 . Reference page.