Xenos is a genus of insects belonging to the family Xenidae.[1] The word derives from the Greek word for strange.[2] A species of the genus is Xenos vesparum, first described by Pietro Rossi in 1793.[3][4] The females are permanent entomophagous endoparasites of Polistes paper wasps. They dwell their whole lives in the abdomens of wasps.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Strepsiptera |
| Suborder: | Stylopidia |
| Family: | Xenidae |
| Genus: | Xenos Rossi, 1793 |
Species
editThese 33 species belong to the genus Xenos:[1]
- Xenos afer Pasteels, 1950 (Africa)
- Xenos americanus (Brèthes, 1923) (South America)
- Xenos argentinus Brèthes, 1923 (South America)
- Xenos boharti Hofmann, 1965 (South America)
- Xenos bohlsi Hoffmann, 1914 (South America)
- Xenos bonairensis Brèthes, 1923 (South America)
- Xenos circularis Kifune & Maeta, 1985 (Asia)
- Xenos colombiensis Cook, Mayorga-Ch & Sarmiento, 2020
- Xenos dianshuiwengi Yang, 1999
- Xenos formosanus Kifune & Maeta, 1985 (Asia)
- Xenos hamiltoni Kathirithamby & Hughes, 2006 (Central America and Mexico)
- Xenos hebraei Kinzelbach, 1978 (Palearctic)
- Xenos hospitus Oliveira & Kogan, 1962 (South America)
- Xenos hunteri (Pierce, 1909) (North America)
- Xenos indespectus Oliveira & Kogan, 1962 (South America)
- Xenos iviei Kifune, 1983
- Xenos kifunei Cook & Mathison, 1997 (North America)
- Xenos moutoni Buysson, 1903 (Southern Asia and temperate Asia)
- Xenos niger Pasteels, 1950 (Africa)
- Xenos nigrescens Brues, 1903 (North America and South America)
- Xenos oxyodontes Nakase & Kato, 2013 (Southern Asia)
- Xenos pallidus Brues, 1903 (North America)
- Xenos peckii Kirby, 1813
- Xenos peruensis Kifune, 1979 (South America)
- Xenos provesparum Kifune, 1986 (Southern Asia and tropical Asia)
- Xenos ropalidiae (Kinzelbach, 1975)
- Xenos rostratus Trois, 1984 (South America)
- Xenos rubiginosi (Pierce, 1909) (North America)
- Xenos stuckenbergi Pasteels, 1956 (Africa)
- Xenos vesparum Rossi, 1793 (Palearctic and Africa)
- Xenos yamaneorum Kifune & Maeta, 1985 (Asia)
- Xenos yangi Dong, Liu & Li, 2022
- Xenos zavattarii (Pierce, 1911) (Africa)
References
edit- ^ a b Benda, D; Pohl, H; Nakase, Y; Beutel, R; et al. (2022). "A generic classification of Xenidae (Strepsiptera) based on the morphology of the female cephalothorax and male cephalotheca with a preliminary checklist of species". ZooKeys (1093): 1–134. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1093.72339. PMC 9010403. PMID 35586542.
- ^ Craig, John (1859). "A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language". Routledge. p. 1090.
- ^ R. Dallai; L. Beani; J. Kathirithamby; P. Lupetti & B. A. Afzelius (2003), "New findings on sperm ultrastructure of Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta)", Tissue and Cell, 35 (1): 19–27, doi:10.1016/S0040-8166(02)00099-X, PMID 12589726
- ^ Fabiola Giusti; Luigi Dallai; Laura Beani; Fabio Manfredini & Romano Dallai (2007), "The midgut ultrastructure of the endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Insecta, Strepsiptera) during post-embryonic development and stable carbon isotopic analyses of the nutrient uptake", Arthropod Structure & Development, 36 (2): 183–197, doi:10.1016/j.asd.2007.01.001, PMID 18089098
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