Species Paraxenos australiensis Kifune & Hirashima, 1987

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• Paraxenos australiensis Kifune, T. & Hirashima, Y. 1987. Three new species of the genus Paraxenos (Strepsiptera; Stylopidae) parasitic on Bembix (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) of Sri Lanka and Australia in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Notulae Strepsipterologicae—XVII. Esakia 25: 155-160 [157].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♀ adult, Kuranda, QLD.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic, NE coastal, QLD; known only from type locality.

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Bembix musca Handlirsch, 1894 [SPHECIDAE]), male—volant, parasitoid.