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Twisted wing parasite
Xenos pecki Kirby, 1813
First described in: Kirby, W. (1813). VI. Strepsiptera, a new order of insects proposed: and the characters of the order, with those of its genera laid down. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 11: 86–123. https://strepsiptera.aphia.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=400044
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. USA: Massachusetts (Kirby 1813; Pierce 1909), Connecticut, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, California (Kirby 1813; Pierce 1908, 1909, 1919), New Jersey, New York, Colorado, Wyoming (Garza and Cook 2021).
A generic classification of Xenidae (Strepsiptera) based on the morphology of the female cephalothorax and male cephalotheca with a preliminary checklist of species
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Xenos pecki in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2007462.