Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 95.—Otiorhynchussulcatus. Sub-order 2. Coleoptera genuina. Section Heteromera. Family Stylopidae.—By some authors referred to a distinct order(Strepsiptera). In the males, which fly about, the mouth-partsare, except the mandibles and one pair of palpi, atrophied; the. Fig. 96. Fig. 97. FIG. 9&.—Stylops childreni, male, dorsal and side 97.—Female, a, iu the abdomen of a bee (Andreiia); b, the same removed. pro- and mesothorax are very short, and the elytra reduced to slenderclub-shaped a
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . FIG. 95.—Otiorhynchussulcatus. Sub-order 2. Coleoptera genuina. Section Heteromera. Family Stylopidae.—By some authors referred to a distinct order(Strepsiptera). In the males, which fly about, the mouth-partsare, except the mandibles and one pair of palpi, atrophied; the. Fig. 96. Fig. 97. FIG. 9&.—Stylops childreni, male, dorsal and side 97.—Female, a, iu the abdomen of a bee (Andreiia); b, the same removed. pro- and mesothorax are very short, and the elytra reduced to slenderclub-shaped appendages, while the hind wings are well developed,the metathorax being remarkably large and long, the abdomen beingsmall. The females are wingless, worm-like, with a flattened tri- 102 ENTOMOLOGY. angular head, and live within the abdomen of bees and wasps,though certain foreign genera are parasites in ants and female is viviparous, giving birth to hundreds of very minuteyoung, which are of very primitive form, with bulbous feet, theslender, hairy body ending in two long styles, and the intestine end-ing as a closed sack. Stylops children! Gray; Xenos peckii Kirbylives in a common wasp (Polistes metricus Say). Family Rhipiphoridae.—Tarsi with claws (those of Stylopids beingclawless), elytra rarely covering the abdomen, as wide as th
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