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Arixeniidae

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Arixeniidae
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Arixeniidae is a family of earwigs in the suborder Neodermaptera. Arixeniidae was formerly considered a suborder, Arixeniina, but was reduced in rank to family and included in the new suborder Neodermaptera.[1][2]

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Arixeniidae is represented by two genera, Arixenia and Xeniaria, with a total of five species.[3] Arixenia esau and Xeniaria jacobsoni are the most well-known. As with Hemimerina, they are blind, wingless ectoparasites with filiform segmented cerci. They are ectoparasites of various Southeast Asian bats, particularly of the genus Cheiromeles (i.e., "naked bulldog bats").

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Genera

The family includes the following genera:[3]

References

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