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Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist


Twisted winged insects

Twisted-winged insects are enigmatic insects whose larvae and adult females are endoparasitic in a variety of other insect hosts, and whose adult males are free flying.

The mobile larvae leave the body of the host insect when the host is in a suitable place. Then the larvae find and board a new host. This may be on a flower for the species that infect bees or wasps. In Galapagos it is probably on vegetation inhabited by the host-plant-feeding leafhoppers or bugs.

This order is probably an ancient sister lineage to the beetles.

Author: Stewart B. Peck.

Other Contributors: Sandra Abedrabbo, Léon L. Baert, Fabián Bersosa, Ruth Boada, Charlotte Causton, Germania Estévez, Lilian Guzmán, Henri W. Herrera, María T. Lasso, Maria Piedad Lincango, E. G. Linsley, Yale Lubin, Alejandro Mieles, Renato Oquendo, Lázaro Roque-Álbelo, Leslie Usinger, Leila von Aesch.

Names of taxa included: 0.

Strepsiptera Species Checklist

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This list should be cited as follows:

Peck, S. B. (2011). CDF Checklist of Galapagos Twisted winged insects - FCD Lista de especies de Strepsiptera de Galápagos. In: Bungartz, F., Herrera, H., Jaramillo, P., Tirado, N., Jiménez-Uzcátegui, G., Ruiz, D., Guézou, A. & Ziemmeck, F. (eds.). Charles Darwin Foundation Galapagos Species Checklist - Lista de Especies de Galápagos de la Fundación Charles Darwin. Charles Darwin Foundation / Fundación Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Galapagos: http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/terrestrial-invertebrates/strepsiptera/ Last updated 18 Mar 2011.