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Twisted-wing Insects
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Twisted-wing Insects

Strepsiptera

The Strepsiptera (translation: "twisted wing"', giving rise to the insects' common name, twisted-wing parasites) are an endopterygote order of insects with nine extant families making up about 600 species. The early-stage larvae and the short-lived adult males are not sessile, but most of their lives are spent as endoparasites in other insects, such as bees, wasps, leafhoppers, silverfish, and cockroaches.

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6 branches of this order, most-observed first

Stylopidia

suborderStylopidia

Mengenillidia

suborderMengenillidia

Lychnocolacidae

familyLychnocolacidae

Cretostylopidae

familyCretostylopidae

Protoxenidae

familyProtoxenidae

Mengeidae

familyMengeidae

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