Strepsiptera in the Western Washington University Insect Collection and Royal British Columbia Museum
Abstract
Strepsiptera are parasitic insects that primarily develop in Hymenoptera and Hemiptera. The diversity of species in Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the USA remains poorly documented. I conducted an examination of the potential host specimens and holdings in the Western Washington University Insect Collection and the Royal BC Museum to discover previously unreported records for five species from two families. New records for Halictophagus americanus (Perkins), Halictophagus callosus Bohart, Halictophagus mackayi (Bohart), Xenos peckii Kirby, and Leionotoxenos tigridis (Pierce) are presented for British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Washington State.
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