First records of Mymaromella pala Huber & Gibson (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatidae) in Quebec, Canada

Hymenoptera are one of the most diverse orders of insects, with 150,000 species described and possibly several million more yet to be discovered (Ulrich 1999; Forbes et al. 2018; Nastasi et al. 2023). Hymenoptera are often difficult to study because of the extremely small size of many of them. Among the smallest, about 0.3–0.8 mm in length (Gibson et al. 2007), are the Mymarommatoidea, all the extant species being in the family Mymarommatidae. Mymarommatids were hypothesized to be egg parasitoids of Psocodea (Huber et al. 2008), and this was confirmed when one species was reared from eggs of a species of Lepidopsocidae (Honsberger et al. 2022). Of the 11 species described worldwide (as of Huber et al. 2008), only two are known from Canada (Bennett et al. 2019; Huber et al. 2021), and only one, *Mymaromella palella* Huber & Gibson, 2008, was collected in Quebec (Huber et al. 2008). While studying another group of micro-hymenopterans (Mymaridae) in the Laurentide region of Quebec, specimens of Mymarommatidae were collected in Voegtlin-style suction trap samples (Favret et al. 2019) and are deposited in the Ouellet-Robert Entomological Collection of the University of Montreal (QMOR). Other specimens were borrowed from the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes (CNC), Ottawa. These new Quebec records are detailed here.