stylops

/ ˈstaɪlɒps /

noun

1. any insect of the order Strepsiptera, including the genus Stylops, living as a parasite in other insects, esp bees and wasps: the females remain in the body of the host but the males move between hosts

Word History and Origins

Origin of stylops¹

C19: New Latin, from Greek, from stulos a pillar + ōps an eye, from the fact that the male insect has stalked compound eyes

Example Sentences

Of all the evils to which bee flesh is heir, there can hardly be any so terrible as the effects of the parasite Stylops on the species of Andrena and Halictus which it attacks.

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Stylops larva in abdominal cavity of bee 78   ,,  23.

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The most notable effect produced by Stylops is the alteration in the structure and colour of certain of the bee's characteristic features.

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Stylops larva in abdominal cavity: after Perez. great hole which he inhabited open; he is provided with wings, and I have more than once caught one flying in the open—but to return to our afflicted bee.

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I have caught Andrenas with two Stylops in them, flying about as usual and apparently none the worse for their inmates.

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