NOMEN: Strepsiptera Kirby 1813
ςρεψις (turning or twosting) - πτερον (wing) (Kirby & Spense 1826: vol.14: 369)
ORIGINAL LISTED MEMBERSHIP (Kirby
1913):
Stylops, Xenos 
JUNIOR CIRCUMSCRIPTIONAL SYNONYMS:
= Rhipidoptera Lamarck 1816
= Rhipiptera Latreille 1817
= Strepsata Billberg 1820
= Rhipidioptera Burmeister 1829
= Strepsipterida Pearce 1936
= Entomophaga Abdullah 1974 (non Latreille 1810)
TYPIFIED NAME IN BASIC FORMAT: Stylops/f=Xenos/g
TYPIFIED NAMES IN USE: Xenos (sensu Rossi 1793), Stylops (sensu Kirby 1802), Stylopidae, Stylopites, Stylopides, Stylopsidi, Stylopinae, Stylopida, Stilopiformia, Stylopoidea, Xenidae
MODERN
STATUS: 
the valid, the
oldest name of a generally accepted, holophyletic taxon.
Systematic
position of Strepsiptera:
| modern classification: |
older classification (Latreille 1825): |
| Elytrophora Strepsiptera Coleoptera |
Bipennia Strepsiptera Diptera |