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Myrmecolacidae  Saunders, 1872
Taxonomic Serial No.: 665933

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
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  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   
       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  
                                  SuborderStylopidia Kinzelbach, 1969  
                                     FamilyMyrmecolacidae Saunders, 1872  
    Direct Children:  
                                        GenusCaenocholax Pierce, 1909  
                                        GenusMyrmecolax Westwood, 1861  
                                        GenusPalaeomyrmecolax Kulicka, 2001  
                                        GenusStichotrema Hofeneder, 1910  
       

 References
       
  Expert(s):    
  Expert: Jeyaraney Kathirithamby   
  Notes: Department of Zoology, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK   
  Reference for: Myrmecolacidae    
       
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  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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  Reference for: Myrmecolacidae   
       
  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   
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  Reference for: Myrmecolacidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, and J. Spencer Johnston   
  Publication Date: 1992   
  Article/Chapter Title: Stylopization of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Caenocholax fenyesi (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) in Texas   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol. 85, no. 3   
  Page(s): 293-297   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0013-8746   
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  Reference for: Myrmecolacidae   
       
  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: Myrmecolacidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney, and Steven J. Taylor   
  Publication Date: 2005   
  Article/Chapter Title: A new species of Halictophagus (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae) from Texas, and a checklist of Strepsiptera from the United States and Canada   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Zootaxa, issue 1056   
  Page(s): 1-18   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1175-5326   
  Notes: Online edition ISSN is 1175-5334: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/   
  Reference for: Myrmecolacidae   
       

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