Myrmecolacidae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Strepsiptera
Subordo: Stylopidia
Superfamilia: Stylopoidea

Familia:Myrmecolacidae
Genera (3): Caenocholax – Myrmecolax – Stichotrema
Name

Myrmecolacidae Saunders, 1872
References

Kathirithamby, J.; Solulu, T.; Caudwell, R. 2001. Descriptions of female Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera) parasitic in Orthoptera (Tettigoniidae) in Papua New Guinea. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 144(2): 187–196. DOI: 10.1163/22119434-900000084 Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page.
Kathirithamby, J. et al. 2009 (Online) 2010 (Print): Conspecifics of a heterotrophic heteronomous species of Strepsiptera (Insecta) are matched by molecular characterization. Systematic entomology 35(2): 234–242. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00507.x Reference page.
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, (R)Arthropoda4, Geological Society of America & University of Kansas 1992

Myrmecolacidae is an insect family of the order Strepsiptera. There are four genera and about 98 species in this family. Like all strepsipterans, they have a parasitic mode of development with males parasitizing ants while the females develop inside Orthoptera. The sexes differ greatly in morphology making it very difficult to match females to the better catalogued museum specimens of males.[1][2]
Genera

Caenocholax Pierce, 1909
Lychnocolax
Myrmecolax
Stichotrema Hofeneder, 1910

References

Halbert, N. R.; L. D. Ross; J. Kathirithamby; J. B. Woolley; R. R. Saff & J. S. Johnston (2001). "Phylogenetic analysis as a means of species identification within Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera)" (PDF). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 144: 179–186. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-02.
Kathirithamby J (2000). "Morphology of the female Myrmecolacidae (Strepsiptera) including the apron, and an associated structure analogous to the peritrophic matrix". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 128 (3): 269–287. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2000.tb00164.x.