STREPSIPTERA
(stylopids)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
ELENCHIDAE a family of stylopids					Family	1 subtaxa	7 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Order	STREPSIPTERA (stylopids)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

STREPSIPTERA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (Eds.)		Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. Band 8	Die Käfer Mitteleuropas, Vol 8, 388pp, Goecke & Evers, Krefeld
()	Linssen, E.F.	1959	Beetles of the British Isles - second series	Wayside and Woodland Series, Second Series, 295pp, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd.
	Pohl, H.		Strepsiptera	www.strepsiptera.uni-rostock.de
	Unwin, D.M.	1984	A Key to the Families of British Beetles	AIDGAP, 66, 197pp, Field Studies Council

STREPSIPTERA (stylopids) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for STREPSIPTERA (stylopids)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for STREPSIPTERA (stylopids)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

STREPSIPTERA is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)