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Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 690125, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/690125
Research Article

Prevalence of Stylopization of Sphex ichneumoneus (L.) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Paraxenos westwoodi (Templeton) (Strepsiptera: Xenidae)

Richard S. Miller, April M. Pearce, and Kevin M. O'Neill

Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 5971, USA

Received 26 February 2009; Accepted 4 November 2009

Academic Editor: Robert Matthews

Copyright © 2009 Richard S. Miller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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