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Genus Stylops

Bee, and its little friend - Stylops Bee plus hitch hiker  - Stylops ID of parasite on Andrena Bee - Stylops ID of parasite on Andrena Bee - Stylops Male strepsipteran (Stylopidae) eclosing from a parasitized mining bee, Andrena sp. (Andrenidae) - Stylops - male Male strepsipteran (Stylopidae) eclosing from a parasitized mining bee, Andrena sp. (Andrenidae) - Stylops - male Male strepsipteran (Stylopidae) eclosing from a parasitized mining bee, Andrena sp. (Andrenidae) - Stylops - male Male strepsipteran (Stylopidae) eclosing from a parasitized mining bee, Andrena sp. (Andrenidae) - Stylops - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Strepsiptera (Twisted-winged Insects)
Family Stylopidae
Genus Stylops
Explanation of Names
Stylops Kirby, 1802
Numbers
37 spp. in our area; 105 worldwide(1)
1. Stylops advarians (Host: Andrena vicinoides): BC
2. Stylops apicalis (Host: Andrena saccata): CA
3. Stylops bipunctatae (Host: Andrena miserabilis): AL, IN, NE, WI
4. Stylops bisalicidis (Host: Andrena bisalicis): AL, ND
5. Stylops bruneri (Host: Andrena salictaria, A. illinoiensis, A. andrenoides): CO, GA, IL, NE
6. Stylops californicus (Host: Andrena subtilis): CA
7. Stylops childreni (Host: Andrena vicina, A. barbilabris): NS
8. Stylops claytoniae (Host: Andrena imitatrix): AL, GA, IL, OK, TX
9. Stylops cornii (Host: Andrena commoda, A. nivalis): WA, WI
10. Stylops crawfordi (Host: Andrena crawfordi, A. sitilae, A. senticulosa): TX
11. Stylops cressoni (Host: Andrena cressonii): ME
12. Stylops cuneiformis (Host: Andrena sp.): CA
13. Stylops duboisi (Host: Andrena sp.): CA
14. Stylops elongatus (Host: Andrena blaisdelli, A. oenotherae): CA
15. Stylops erigeniae (Host: Andrena erigeniae): IL
16. Stylops hartfordensis (Host: Andrena nasoni, A. hartfordensis): GA, PA
17. Stylops heterocingulata (Host: Andrena pensilis, A. angustitarsata): CA, OR
18. Stylops hippotes (Host: Andrena hippotes): AL, OH
19. Stylops leechi (Host: Andrena vicinoides): BC
20. Stylops mandibularis (Host: Andrena mandibularis): IL
21. Stylops medionitans (Host: Andrena medionitens): CO
22. Stylops moestae (Host: Andrena frigida): WA
23. Stylops multiplicatae (Host: Andrena miranda): MT, WI
24. Stylops neonanae (Host: Andrena neonana): GA
25. Stylops nubeculae (Host: Andrena nubecula): CO
26. Stylops nudae (Host: Andrena nuda): IL
27. Stylops oklahomae (Host: Andrena texana): OK
28. Stylops pacificus (Host: Andrena caerulea, A. suavis, A. cuneilabris, Panurginus melanocephalus): CA, OR
29. Stylops packardi (Host: Andrena barbilabris): MA
30. Stylops polemonii (Host: Andrena polemonii): CO
31. Stylops salicifloris (Host: Andrena salicifloris, A. quintiliformis, A. nr. marioides, A. cleodora, A. hippotes): CA, WA
32. Stylops shannoni (Host unknown): BC; MD
33. Stylops sparsipilosae (Host unknown): ME
34. Stylops subcandidae (Host: Andrena candida): CA
35. Stylops swenki (Host: Andrena asteris, A. nr. lincolnella): IL, NE, PA
36. Stylops timberlakei (Host: Andrena macrocephala): CA
37. Stylops vandykei (Host: Andrena pertristis, A. perimelas): CA, OR
Food
Hosts: primarily Andrena spp.;(1) a single of our species reported from Panurginus(1)
Works Cited
1.Annotated catalog of the order Strepsiptera of the World
Jerry L. Cook. 2019. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 145(2):121-267.