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Mengeidae  Pierce, 1908
Taxonomic Serial No.: 114990

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
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  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2014   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderStrepsiptera Kirby, 1813 – parasitic insects, twisted-winged parasites, estrepsítero, twisted-wing parasites, strepsipterans  
                                  SuborderMengenillidia Kinzelbach, 1969  
                                     FamilyMengeidae Pierce, 1908  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Genus Mengea Grote, 1886  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Jeyaraney Kathirithamby  
  Notes: Department of Zoology, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK   
  Reference for: Mengeidae    
       
  Other Source(s):    
  Source: NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)  
  Acquired: 1996   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Mengeidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bohart, Richard M.  
  Publication Date: 1941   
  Article/Chapter Title: A revision of the Strepsiptera with special reference to the species of North America   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: University of California Publications in Entomology, vol. 7, no. 6   
  Page(s): 91-160   
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  Notes:    
  Reference for: Mengeidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney  
  Publication Date: 1989   
  Article/Chapter Title: Review of the Order Strepsiptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Systematic Entomology, vol. 14, no. 1   
  Page(s): 41-92   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0307-6970   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Mengeidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, and Michael S. Engel  
  Publication Date: 2014   
  Article/Chapter Title: A revised key to the living and fossil families of Strepsiptera, with the description of a new family, Cretostylopidae   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, vol. 87, no. 4   
  Page(s): 385-388   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0022-8567   
  Notes: doi:10.2317/JKES140407.1 ; available online at http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2317/JKES140407.1   
  Reference for: Mengeidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Pierce, W. Dwight  
  Publication Date: 1908   
  Article/Chapter Title: A preliminary review of the classification of the order Strepsiptera   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, vol. 9, no. 1-4   
  Page(s): 75-85   
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  Notes: Available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16105183   
  Reference for: original description   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Fossil in Eocene Baltic amber (Kathirithamby, 1989)  
 

 

    

 
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