Traumatic insemination describes an unusual form of mating during which a male
penetrates the body wall of its female partner to inject sperm. Females unable to prevent …

Xenos vesparum of the highly specialized Strepsiptera is a new insect model in the context
of host-parasite relationships. The endoparasitic female and male secondary larvae were …

Polyandry, the practice of females mating with multiple males, is a strategy found in many
insect groups. Whether it increases the likelihood of receiving beneficial genes from male …

Twisted-wing insects (Strepsiptera) are an enigmatic order of parasites with unusual life
histories and striking sexual dimorphism. Males emerge from hosts as free-living winged …

Strepsiptera is a monophyletic group of entomophagous, obligate endoparasites, stylopising
a wide range of insect hosts belonging to 34 families of Zygentoma, Polyneoptera …

Two new species of Strepsiptera of the genus Xenos Rossi, 1793 (Xenidae) from the New
World are described. Both are endoparasites of social wasps of the genus Mischocyttarus …

 Abstract Large numbers of new taxa are described annually and while there is a great need
to make them identifiable, there seems little consistency in how this might be facilitated. 427 …

A new genus and species of Strepsiptera, Chrysostylops australiensis Benda & Straka, gen.
et sp. nov., is described. It represents the first record of the family Stylopidae from Australia. It …

The first record of the genus Brasixenos Kogan & Oliveira is presented for Mexico with the
description of B. mesoamericanus, a species found in localities from central Veracruz state …

Two new species of Strepsiptera from the genus Zethus Fabricius, 1804 (Hymenoptera:
Vespidae) are described. Although the stylopisation of the genus Zethus has been known for …