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Order Strepsiptera (Stylops)
A small order of about 300 species. Nothing much is known in India of
these except that other insects like bees, crickets, some homopterous
species are parasitised—stylopised by them. The male active, front wing
twisted and degenerated, hindwing folded like a fan, Fertilises the female,
almost a wingless sac, in the body of the host. The young shoot out and
hop like fly maggots, attach to the body of the adult hosts and are thus
carried to the nests where fresh infection takes place. Adult male about 2
ram. Larva (triangulin) 0.1 to t'5 mm.
See Subramaniyam T. V. fl922) Tr. Ent. Soc Lond. p. 131 New genus of
Strepsiptera,
Rec. Ind. Mus. 34-A3 (1932) New genus of Strepsiptera.
FAUNA 502