Strepsiptera

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Translingual

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Strepsiptera example
(from family Halictophagidae

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek στρεψίς (strepsís, a turning [inward]) + πτερόν (pterón, wing).

Proper noun

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Strepsiptera

  1. The strepsipterans
    1. A taxonomic order within the class Insecta.
    2. A taxonomic order within the superorder Holometabola.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI