Xenos ropalidiae (Kinzelbach, 1975) Benda & Pohl & Nakase & Beutel & Straka, 2022

Benda, Daniel, Pohl, Hans, Nakase, Yuta, Beutel, Rolf & Straka, Jakub, 2022, A generic classification of Xenidae (Strepsiptera) based on the morphology of the female cephalothorax and male cephalotheca with a preliminary checklist of species, ZooKeys 1093, pp. 1-134 : 1

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1093.72339
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scientific name	Xenos ropalidiae (Kinzelbach, 1975)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Xenos ropalidiae (Kinzelbach, 1975) View in CoL comb. nov.

Pseudoxenos ropalidiae Kinzelbach, 1975: 69.

Hosts.

Ropalidia cincta (Lepeletier, 1836); Ropalidia fulvopruinosa (Cameron, 1906); Ropalidia marginata (Lepeletier, 1836) (as Ropalidia ferruginea F.); Ropalidia nobilis ( Gerstäcker, 1857); Ropalidia variegata (Smith, 1852) ( Kinzelbach 1975; Cook 2019); Ropalidia malayana (Cameron 1903) ( Benda et al. 2021).

Distribution.

Democratic Republic of Congo; India; Indonesia: Java; Papua New Guinea; Philippines ( Kinzelbach 1975; Cook 2019); Laos; Nepal; Malaysia ( Benda et al. 2021).

Note.

Benda et al. (2021) proposed three lineages possibly representing separate species. More comprehensive sampling and detailed study are necessary.