Strepsiptera

Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney & Hughes, David P., 2006, Description and biological notes of the first species of Xenos (Strepsiptera: Stylopidae) parasitic in Polistes carnifex F. (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Mexico, Zootaxa 1104, pp. 35-45 : 41-43

List of Strepsiptera from Mexico

Family Corioxenidae Kinzelbach 1970: 106

Subfamily Triozocerinae Kinzelbach 1970: 105 Genus Triozocera Pierce 1909: 86

Genotype: Triozocera mexicana Pierce

T. mexicana Pierce 1909: 86 ɗ

Triozocera texana Pierce 1911: 491

Triozocera paulistan Kogan 1958: 421

Triozocera mexicana Shepard 1979: 217

Host: Pangaeus bilineatus (Say) ( Hemiptera . Cydnidae ) Johnson 1973; Smith & Pitts 1974 Distribituon: Veracruz, Oaxaca

T. tecpanensis Brailovsky & Márquez 1974: 106 ɗ Host: unknown

Distribution: Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero

T. vernalis Kifune & Brailovsky 1987: 132 ɗ Host: unknown

Distribution: Juárez, Puebla

Subfamily Corioxeninae Kinzelbach 1970: 106 Genus Corioxenos Blair 1936: 116

C. acucyrtophallus Cook 2001: 397 ɗ Host: unknown

Distribution: Chiapas

Family Halictophagidae Perkins 1905: 98

Subfamily Halictophaginae Perkins 1905: 98

Genus Halictophagus Dale (in Curtis 1832: 433) Genotype: Halictophagus curtisi Dale

H. acutus Bohart 1943: 352 ɗ, &, L 1

Host: Draeculacephala mollipes (Say) , D. minerva Ball (Homoptera: Cicadellidae ) Johnston & Morrison 1979

Distribution: Atzcapotzalco, D. F.

H. naulti Kathirithamby & Moya­Raygoza 2000 : ɗ Host: Dalbulus maidis (Delong & Wolcott) (Homoptera: Cicadellidae ) Distribution: Morelos, Tlatizapán

Family Elenchidae Perkins 1905: 106

Genus Elenchus Curtis 1831: 385

Genotype: Stylops walkeri Curtis (= Elenchus tenuicornis (Kirby))

E. butzei Brailvosky 1981: 374 ɗ

Host: unknown

Distribution: Tecolutla, Veracruz

E. koebelei Pierce 1908: 81 ɗ

Elenchus tenuicornis Baumert 1959: 400 Elenchus heidemanni Pierce 1918: 481

Host: Liburnia sp., Prokelisia marginata (Van Duzee), Prokelisia dolus Wilson , Sogatella kolophon

(Kirkaldy) ( Hemiptera : Delphacidae )

Distribution: Northern District

E. mexicanus ( Pierce 1961: 467) ɗ, &, L 1

Sogatelenchus mexicanus Pierce 1961: 740

Host: Sogatodes ( Sogata) cubana (Crawford) (Homoptera: Delphacidae ) Distribution: Cotaxtla, Veracruz

Family Myrmecolacidae Saunders 1872: 20

Genus Caenocholax Pierce 1909: 88 Genotype : Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce 1909

C. fenyesi Pierce 1909: 88 ɗ

Host: unknown

Distribution: Veracruz, Tabasco

C. fenyesi waloffi Kathirithamby & Johnston 2004 : ɗ, &

Host: Dolichoderus bispinous Olivier #m; Macroanaxipha macilenta (Saussure) #f Distribution: Veracruz, Los Tuxtlas

Genus Stichotrema Hofenedera 1910: 47

Genotype: Stichotrema dallatorreanum Hofeneder

S. mexicanum Kifune & Brailovsky 1987: 135 ɗ Host: unknown

Distribution: Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz

Stichotrema beckeri ( Oliveira & Kogan 1959) Kinzelbach 1983: 33 ɗ Caenocholax beckeri Oliveira & Kogan 1959: 224 Stichotrema trilobulata Brailovsky 1974: 169

Stichotrema beckeri Luna de Carvalho 1978: 356 Stichotrema beckeri Kinzelbach 1983: 33 (fossil amber) Caenocholax wygodzinskyi Oliveira & Kogan 1959: 225 Stichotrema trilobulatum Kifune & Brailovsky 1987: 137 Stichotrema beckeri Kinzelbach & Pohl 1994: 62 (fossil amber)

Host: unknown

Distribution: Galeana, Guerrero

Family Stylopidae Kirby 1813

Genus Melittostylopus Kinzelbach 1971: 170 ɗ

Genotype: Melittostylops hesparapium Kinzelbach Genus Xenos Rossi 1793: 49

Genotype: Xenos vesparum Rossius

X. hamiltoni Kathirithamby & Hughes n. sp. ɗ Host: Polistes carnifex carnifex F. ( Hymenoptera : Vespidae ) Distribution: Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz