Stylops melittae

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

Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802: 113

Stylops kirbii Leach, 1817: 135 [syn.: Pierce, 1909]
Stylops haworthi Stephens, 1829: 403 [syn.: Pierce, 1909]
Stylops spencii Pickering, 1837: 168 [syn.: Pasteels, 1949]
Stylops flavipedis Hofeneder, 1924: 132 [syn.: Kinzelbach, 1978; Lähteenaro et al., 2024]
Stylops nitidae Pasteels, 1954: 352 [syn.: Kinzelbach, 1978; Lähteenaro et al., 2024]
Stylops melittai Luna de Carvalho, 1974: 341 (misspelling)
Stylops kirbyi Kinzelbach, 1978: 125 (misspelling)

Kirby, W. 1802. Monographia apum Angliæ; or, an attempt to divide into their natural genera and families, such species of the Linnean genus Apis as have been discovered in England: with descriptions and observations... Vol. II. pp. 1–388, Tab. 15–18. Ipswich. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.10346 BHL
Leach, W.E. 1817. On the Rhipiptera of Latreille, an Order of Insects named by Kirby Strepsiptera. Zoological Miscellany 3: 133–136. BHL.
Pickering, W.B. 1837. Observations on the economy of the Strepsiptera, with the description of Stylops spencii, a new British species recently discovered. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 163–168.
Stephens, J.F. 1829. A systematic catalogue of British insects: being an attempt to arrange all the hitherto discovered indigenous insects in accordance with their natural affinities, containing also the references to every English writer on entomology, and to the principal foreign authors, with all the published British genera to the present time: 1–416. BHL Reference page.

Cook, J.L. 2019. Annotated catalog of the order Strepsiptera of the World. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 145(2): 121–267. DOI: 10.3157/061.145.0202 . PDF. Reference page.
Lähteenaro, M., Straka, J., Forshage, M., Hovmöller, R., Nakase, Y., Nilsson, A.L., Smit, J.T., Nylander, J.A.A., Bergsten, J. 2023 (Online), 2024 (Print). Phylogenomic species delimitation of the twisted-winged parasite genus Stylops (Strepsiptera). Systematic Entomology 49(2): 294–313. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12618 . Reference page.
Straka, J., Jůzová, K. & Nakase, Y. 2015. Nomenclature and taxonomy of the genus Stylops (Strepsiptera): an annotated preliminary world checklist. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55(1): 305–332. PDF. Reference page.

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