The membership of the clade Coleoptera is not in dispute, with the exception of the twisted-wing parasites, Strepsiptera.

The Strepsiptera (translation: twisted wing, giving rise to the insects' common name, twisted-wing parasites) are an endopterygote order of insects with 9 extant families making up about 600 species.

Stylopidae are an insect family of the order Strepsiptera.

This is known in some hymenopteran parasitoids and in Strepsiptera.

Strepsiptera have clusters of simple eyes).

The Strepsiptera have two major groups: Stylopidia and Mengenillidia.

It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera.

This is the reverse of Strepsiptera and the bagworm, where the male is a normal insect and the female never leaves the host.

All Strepsiptera have planidial larvae.

It is considered to be the most basal living member of the order Strepsiptera, and therefore is the sister taxon to the remaining extant species.

In Atractocerus, and the males of the Strepsiptera, the elytra are reduced to small scale-like appendages.

He uses a scanning electron microscope to look at small organisms including mites, mosquitoes, and a bee being parasitized by a strepsiptera.

Bohart contributed insects in the orders of Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Strepsiptera.

Male Strepsiptera have wings, legs, eyes, and antennae, and superficially look like flies, though their mouthparts cannot be used for feeding.

The most typical examples of such organisms are the parasitoidal Hymenoptera, Diptera, Strepsiptera, and some other insects.

This interested Bohart enough to a point where he continued to study Strepsiptera and eventually made them the subject of his Ph.D. thesis in 1938.

Some that do not necessarily kill the host, such as the Strepsiptera, may none the less be counted as parasitoids because they generally functionally sterilize it.

The membership of the clade Coleoptera is not in dispute, with the exception of the twisted-wing parasites, Strepsiptera.

Some arthropods, including many Strepsiptera, have compound eyes of only a few facets, each with a retina capable of creating an image, creating vision.

Adult male Strepsiptera have eyes unlike those of any other insect, resembling the schizochroal eyes found in the trilobite group known as Phacopida.

Flies of the group Muscomorpha have puparia, as do members of the order Strepsiptera, and the Hemipteran family Aleyrodidae.

- Cretostylops engeli Grimaldi & Kathirithamby, 2005 (the oldest fossil Strepsiptera, from Myanmar)

Stylops melittae is a species of the order Strepsiptera of flying insects, that parasitize various species of sand bees (Andrena).

We know the evolution was independent because in the Strepsiptera the forewings evolved into halteres while, in the Diptera, the hindwings changed into halteres.

No other group of insects possesses similar structures (in place of hind wings-insects in the order Strepsiptera have convergently-evolved halteres in place of fore wings).

Whiting is an expert on the evolution of Diptera and other insects and was the author of the article on Strepsiptera in the Encyclopedia of Insects.