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Genus of earwigs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arixenia is a genus of earwigs, one of only two genera in the family Arixeniidae, and contains two species. These are ectoparasitic on bats.[3]
Arixenia | |
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Arixenia esau from the Manual of Entomology | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Dermaptera |
Family: | Arixeniidae |
Genus: | Arixenia Jordan, 1909 [1] |
Species[1][2] | |
The genus Arixenia live on the skin of bats mainly of the genus Cheiromeles. Another genus Hemimerus is also ectoparasitic and found on rats of teh genus Cricetomys. They are placed in the suborder Arixenina and have unsegmented cerci.[3]
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