Family CORIOXENIDAE
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T.R. New, Department of Zoology, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Introduction
Corioxenidae are characterised by males lacking mandibles and females having the opening of the brood canal apical. Otherwise they are diverse and separable into three subfamilies, two of which occur in Australia. Each of these is represented in Australia by one genus and all eight species are endemic.
Corioxeninae have 4-segmented tarsi without claws, and are parasites of Heteroptera. Triozocerinae also parasitise Heteroptera, but have 5-segmented tarsi with weak claws. Australian species were reviewed by Kathirithamby (1990).
References
Kathirithamby, J. 1990. Descriptions of Corioxenidae (Strepsiptera) from Australia, and a checklist of world genera and species of Corioxenidae. Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 469–481