Xenos (insect)
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Xenos is a genus of insects belonging to the family Stylopidae. The word derives from the Greek word for strange.[1] A species of the genus is Xenos vesparum, first described by Pietro Rossi in 1793[2][3]The females are permanent entomophagous endoparasites of Polistes paper wasps. They dwell their whole life in the abdomen of the wasp.
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