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| Stylops melittae male; note the halteres in front of the wings | |
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| Stylops melittae females protruding from the abdomen of an Andrenid bee | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Strepsiptera |
| Family: | Stylopidae |
| Genus: | Stylops Kirby, 1802 |
Stylops species: Adult male at top. Female and pupa at bottom right, B & C
Stylops[1] is a genus of obligately endoparasitic insects in the family Stylopidae. Hosts are typically members of the order Hymenoptera.
The name "stylops", used without a capital "s", refers as a common name to any member of the order Strepsiptera, and not only the genus Stylops.[2]
- ^ 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. To which are prefixed some introductory remarks upon the class Hymenoptera, and a synoptical table of the nomenclature of the external parts of these insects. J. Raw, Ipswich, London. Vol. 2: 258 pp.
- ^ Merriam-Webster: stylops broadly: an insect of the order Strepsiptera |[1]