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BugGuide Gathering
Pack Forest
Washington State
July 10-12, 2009
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Family Stylopidae

Strepsiptera?? - Xenos  Stylopized Sphecid Wasp - Xenos Wasp - Xenos Wasp parasite - Xenos Stylopid - Xenos - male Polistes parasites - Xenos Polistes parasites - Xenos
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Strepsiptera (Twisted-winged Insects)
Family Stylopidae
Numbers
About 91 species according to Nearctica
Remarks
Most are parasitic on bees (Andrenidae, Halictidae and Hylaeinae); some are parasitic on wasps (Polistinae, Eumeninae and Sphecinae).
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Works Cited
1.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn