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NOTES ON A RARE WOODWASP, XIPHYDRIA CANADENSIS (HYMENOPTERA: XIPHYDRIIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

W. J. Crins
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6

Extract

The woodwasp, Xiphydria canadensis Provancher, is a rare insect restricted to northeastern North America. Provancher (1875) based his original description on a single female collected at St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. In his recent revision, Smith (1976) saw only five females. On 7 August 1977, I collected a specimen of this large and distinctive species on the north side of Hwy. 60, at Mile 12.7, just west of the Park Museum in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario. This collection constitutes the first record for this species in Ontario.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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References

Provancher, L. 1875. Les Urocerides de Qubec. Naturaliste Can. 7: 368376.Google Scholar
Smith, D. R. 1976. The xiphydriid woodwasps of North America (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae). Trans. Am. ent. Soc. 102: 101131.Google Scholar