stylops

English

a. male with wings behind the halteres.
b, female (removed from host).
c., shows the female, in outline, within the body of a bee;
d, e, male and female planidium

Noun

stylops (plural stylops)

1. (dated) Any insect in the order Strepsiptera, when the word is not capitalised. The capitalised word is the proper name of the genus Stylops.

   Synonyms: strepsipter, strepsipteran

   • 1909, William Dwight Pierce, A monographic revision of the twisted winged insects comprising the order Strepsiptera Kirby:

     Smith (1874) recommended searching for stylopized bees between the hours of 9 and 12 in the morning, as according to his experiences the stylops always emerged from the body of the bee on the day on which the latter first quitted its nest, should the day be bright and sunny, and he also mentioned the fact of his never having captured a bee which had a male stylops remaining in its abdomen at a later hour than 12 m.

Related terms

• stylopization
• stylopize

Anagrams

• Sypolts