Abstract
The only known Canadian records of the yellow scarab hunter wasp, Dielis pilipes (Saussure), are from the southern Okanagan and Similkameen valleys of British Columbia. We report a 25-kilometre northern range extension of the species, collected in an unmanaged agricultural field in Summerland, BC. This finding is of conservation importance and has implications for natural biological control of ten-lined June beetles (Polyphylla decemlineata (Say) and P. crinita LeConte), incidental agricultural pests in the Okanagan.
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