Arixenia

Arixenia
Arixenia esau from the Manual of Entomology
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Dermaptera
Family: Arixeniidae
Genus: Arixenia
Jordan, 1909 [1]
Species[1][2]

Arixenia is a genus of earwigs, one of only two genera in the family Arixeniidae, and contains two species. These earwigs live on bats and feed off their dead skin, being commensalistic symbionts.[3][4][5]

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 the genus Cricetomys. They are placed in the suborder Arixenina and have unsegmented cerci.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "All the names".
  2. ^ "Arixenia (Genus)". Archived from the original on 2010-11-02. Retrieved 2009-03-30.
  3. ^ Strenger, A. (1977). Arixenia esau J., kein Parasit — eine funktionsmorphologische Studie. Zool. Anz. (Jena), 199, 99-106.
  4. ^ Jaglarz, Mariusz K.; Tworzydlo, Waclaw; Rak, Agnieszka; Kotula-Balak, Malgorzata; Sekula, Malgorzata; Bilinski, Szczepan M. (November 2019). "Viviparity in the dermapteran Arixenia esau: respiration inside mother's body requires both maternal and larval contribution". Protoplasma. 256 (6): 1573–1584. doi:10.1007/s00709-019-01402-1. PMC 6820587.
  5. ^ a b Popham, Edward J. (1962). "The anatomy related to the feeding habits of Arixenia and Hemimerus (Dermaptera)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 139 (3): 429–450. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1962.tb01838.x. ISSN 0370-2774.
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