Mengenillidae | |
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Male (top) and female (bottom) of Mengenilla moldrzyki | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Strepsiptera |
Family: | Mengenillidae Hofeneder, 1910 |
Genera | |
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Mengenillidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Strepsiptera.[1] It is the second most basal member of the order, after Bahiaxenidae. Unlike members of Stylopidia, which contains the vast majority of strepsipterans, the adult females of the family are free-living with legs.[2] Members of the family with known hosts (Eoxenos and Mengenilla) parasitise members of the family Lepismatidae (silverfish and kin).[3]