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Basal Strepsiptera

Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Cladus: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Cladus: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Strepsiptera
Cladus: "basal Strepsiptera"
Familiae: Bahiaxenidae - "Mengenillidae" - †Mengeidae - †Protoxenidae

Overview of genera

Bahiaxenos - Congoxenos - Eoxenos - Mengenilla - ?Yemengenilla - †Cretostylops - †Mengea - †Protoxenos

References

* Bravo, F.; Pohl, H.; Silva-Neto, A.; Beutel, R.G. 2009: Bahiaxenidae, a "living fossil" and a new family of Strepsiptera (Hexapoda) discovered in Brazil. Cladistics, 25: 614-623. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00264.x
* Grimaldi, D.; Kathirithamby, J.; Schawaroch, V. 2005: Strepsiptera and triungula in Cretaceous amber. Insect systematics and evolution, 36: 1-20.
* Kathirithamby, J. 1989: Review of the order Strepsiptera. Systematic entomology, 14: 41-92. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1989.tb00265.x
* Pohl, H. 2002: Phylogeny of the Strepsiptera based on morphological data of the first instar larvae. Zoologica scripta, 31: 123-134. ISSN: 0300-3256 (print) 1463-6409 (online) doi: 10.1046/j.0300-3256.2001.00078.x
* Pohl, H.; Beutel, R.G. 2005: The phylogeny of Strepsiptera (Hexapoda). Cladistics, 21: 328-374. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00074.x
* Pohl, H.; Beutel, R.G. 2008: The evolution of Strepsiptera (Hexapoda). Zoology, 111: 318-338. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2007.06.008
* Pohl, H.; Beutel, R.G.; Kinzelbach, R. 2005: Protoxenidae fam. nov. (Insecta, Strepsiptera) from Baltic amber — a 'missing link' in strepsipteran phylogeny. Zoologica scripta, 34: 57-69. ISSN: 0300-3256 (print) 1463-6409 (online) doi: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00173.x

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