Definition of stylopized in English:
stylopized
(British stylopised)
adjective ˈstʌɪləpʌɪzdˈstīləˌpēzd
Entomology (of a bee or other insect) parasitized by a stylops.
〔昆〕(蜜蜂等昆虫)捻翅虫寄生的
Example sentencesExamples
- Oncometopia nigricans is often stylopized (attacked by a strepsipteran) by an unidentified species of Halictophagidae.
- Their common name of Stylops becomes an adjective when describing the hosts that are carrying them, hence an insect suffering from parasitism by ‘Strepsiptera’ is described as being ‘stylopised’.
- Its looks like the stylopized hymenoptera, where the parasite is more deeply in the abdomen, with only a small protrusion of a part of the body toward outside.
- Distribution of Caenocolax feneysi and the habitats most likely to contain stylopized host, Solenopsis invicta.
- The female mining bee above (probably Andrena tibialis) has been stylopised by a parasite: Stylops melittae.