Stylops melittae (♀)
Stylops melittae (♂)

Taxonavigation

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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

Familia: Stylopidae
Genus: Stylops
Species: Stylops melittae

Name

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Stylops melittae Kirby, 1802: 113

Synonyms

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  • 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)

References

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Primary references

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  • 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

Additional references

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