Xenos vesparum

taxobox
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Strepsiptera
familia = Stylopidae
subfamilia = Xeninae
genus = "Xenos"
species = "Xenos vesparum"
species_authority = Rossi, 1793

Xenos vesparum is an insect species, whose females are permanent entomophagous endoparasites of "Polistes" paper wasps. They dwell their whole life in the abdomen of the wasp.

Sources

* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16047336&dopt=AbstractPlus Mating of Xenos vesparum ]
* [http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Insecta/Strepsiptera/images/strep-im-5-300x272.jpg.html Xenos vesparum electron-microscope image]
* citation
title = New findings on sperm ultrastructure of Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta)
author = R. Dallai, L. Beani, J. Kathirithamby, P. Lupetti and B. A. Afzelius
doi = 10.1016/S0040-8166(02)00099-X
* citation
title = The midgut ultrastructure of the endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Insecta, Strepsiptera) during post-embryonic development and stable carbon isotopic analyses of the nutrient uptake
author = Fabiola Giusti, Luigi Dallai, Laura Beani, Fabio Manfredini and Romano Dallai
doi = 10.1016/j.asd.2007.01.001