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Species Paraxenos occidentalis Kifune & Hirashima, 1987

  • Paraxenos occidentalis 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 [156].
    Type data:
     Holotype USNM adult, 24 miles S of Carnarvon, WA.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Endemic, NW coastal, WA; known only from type locality.


Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic, male—volant, parasitoid.