Mengenillidae
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| Mengenillidae | |
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| Male (top) and female (bottom) of Mengenilla moldrzyki | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Strepsiptera |
| Family: | Mengenillidae Hofeneder, 1910 |
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Mengenillidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Strepsiptera.[1] The Bahiaxenidae are sister to all other Strepsipteran lineages; within that group, the Megenillidae are sister to all remaining lineages. Unlike members of Stylopidia, which contains the vast majority of strepsipterans, the adult females of the family are free-living with legs.[2] Members of the family with known hosts (Eoxenos and Mengenilla) parasitise members of the family Lepismatidae (silverfish and kin).[3]