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Xenos (insect)

Summary

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.

Xenos
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Strepsiptera
Suborder: Stylopidia
Family: Xenidae
Genus: Xenos
Rossi, 1793
Four male pupae are visible partially emerged from the wasp's abdomen; likely Xenos peckii, which is a parasite of the paper wasp Polistes fuscatus.

Species edit

These 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Craig, John (1859). "A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing dictionary of the English language". Routledge. p. 1090.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ 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