Caenocholax
Genus of insects
| Caenocholax | |
|---|---|
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| Caenocholax fenyesi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Strepsiptera |
| Family: | Myrmecolacidae |
| Genus: | Caenocholax Pierce, 1909 |
Caenocholax is a genus of twisted-winged insects in the family Myrmecolacidae. There are about nine described species in Caenocholax.[1][2][3]
Species
These nine species belong to the genus Caenocholax:
- Caenocholax barkleyi Antell & Kathirithamby, 2016
- Caenocholax brasiliensis Oliveira & Kogan, 1959
- Caenocholax brodzinsky Kathirithamby & Grimaldi, 1993
- Caenocholax brodzinskyi Kathirithamby & Grimaldi, 1993
- Caenocholax dominicensis Kathirithamby & Grimaldi, 1993
- Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce, 1909 (Fenyes' strepsiptera)
- Caenocholax groehni Kathirithamby & Henderickx, 2008
- Caenocholax palusaxus Antell & Kathirithamby, 2016
- Caenocholax vilhenai Luna de Carvalho, 1956
References
Further reading
- Pierce, W. Dwight (1909). "A monographic revision of the twisted winged insects comprising the order Strepsiptera Kirby". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 66. hdl:10088/30423.
- Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney; Taylor, Steven J. (2005). "A new species of Halictophagus (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae) from Texas, and a checklist of Strepsiptera from the United States and Canada". Zootaxa. 1056 (1): 1–18. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1056.1.1.
External links
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