strepsiptera
📖 中文释义
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📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. pl. A group of small insects having the anterior
- wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted
- appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are
- parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called
- also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.