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Xenos vesparum is an insect species, whose females are permanent entomophagous endoparasites of Polistes wasps. They dwell their whole life in the abdomen of the wasp.
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- Mating of Xenos vesparum
- Xenos vesparum electron-microscope image
- R. Dallai, L. Beani, J. Kathirithamby, P. Lupetti and B. A. Afzelius, New findings on sperm ultrastructure of Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Strepsiptera, Insecta), DOI 10.1016/S0040-8166(02)00099-X
- Fabiola Giusti, Luigi Dallai, Laura Beani, Fabio Manfredini and Romano Dallai, The midgut ultrastructure of the endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Rossi) (Insecta, Strepsiptera) during post-embryonic development and stable carbon isotopic analyses of the nutrient uptake, DOI 10.1016/j.asd.2007.01.001
