Caenocholax

Caenocholax
Caenocholax fenyesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
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 seven described species in Caenocholax.[1][2][3][4]

Species

These seven species belong to the genus Caenocholax:

  • Caenocholax brasiliensis Oliveira & Kogan, 1959 c g
  • Caenocholax brodzinsky Kathirithamby & Grimaldi, 1993 c g
  • Caenocholax brodzinskyi Kathirithamby and Grimaldi, 1993 i
  • Caenocholax dominicensis Kathirithamby and Grimaldi, 1993 i c g
  • Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce, 1909 i c g b (Fenyes' strepsiptera)
  • Caenocholax groehni Kathirithamby and Henderickx, 2008 i c g
  • Caenocholax vilhenai Luna de Carvalho, 1956 c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[1] c = Catalogue of Life,[2] g = GBIF,[3] b = Bugguide.net[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Caenocholax Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  2. 1 2 "Browse Caenocholax". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  3. 1 2 "Caenocholax". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. 1 2 "Caenocholax Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-29.

Further reading

  • Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
  • Bohart, Richard M. (1941). "A revision of the Strepsiptera with special reference to the species of North America". University of California Publications in Entomology. 7 (6): 91–160. doi:10.1093/aesa/35.1.72.
  • Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney; Johnston, J. Spencer (1992). "Stylopization of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Caenocholax fenyesi (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) in Texas". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 85 (3): 293–297. ISSN 0013-8746.
  • 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): 1–18. doi:10.5281/zenodo.170109. ISSN 1175-5326.
  • 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).


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