224 HYMENOPTERA OF AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO 



1962. Canad. Ent. 94: 673.— Timofeeva, 1963. Zashch. East. 

 Vred. i Boleznei. 8: 44. 



luteola Howard. Calif. 



Biology: Poinar, 1964. Jour. Ent. 57: 382. 



meritoria Gahan. Ariz., Calif. 



pergandiella Howard. Host: Trialeurodes abutilonea (Hald.). 



quaintancei Howard. 111. Host: Trialeurodes abutilonea (Hald.). 



variegata Howard. Host: Aleurothrixus floccosus (Mask.). 



Genus ASPIDIOTIPHAGUS Howard, pp. 438-439 



Taxonomy: Alam, 1956. Roy. Ent. Soc. London Trans. 108: 359. 



citrinus citrinus (Craw). 



Biology: Benassy, 1958. Entomophaga 3: 104.— Hughes, 1960. Fla. Ent. 

 43: 90.— Benassy, 1961. Ann. Epiphyt., ser. C, 12: 42. 



lounsburyi (Berlese and Paoli). 



Taxonomy: Muma, 1959. Jour. Econ. Ent. 52: 579. — Annecke, 1963. 

 Ent. Soc. S. Afr. Jour. 26: 206. 



*Genus COCCOPHAGOIDES Girault 



Coccophagoides Girault, 1915. Queensland Mus. Mem. 4: 58. 



Type: Coccophagus abiiorniicornis Girault. Orig. desig. 

 *Diaspiniphagus Silvestri, 1927. Lab. Zool. Gen. e Agr. Portici Bol. 20: 

 35. 



Type: Prospalta similis Masi. Orig. desig. 

 Taxonomy: Compere, 1936. Univ. Calif. Pubs., Ent. 6: 292. 



Place in Aphelininae following Aneristus Howard, p. 439. 



fuscipennis (Girault). D. C. Transf. from Prospaltella Howard, teste H. 

 Compere, in litt. 



*kuwanai (Silvestri). Conn., N. Y., N. J., Ohio, Calif.; Japan. Host: Aspi- 



diotus perniciosus (Comst.). 

 Diaspiniphagus kutvanae Silvestri, 1927. Lab. Zool. Portici Bol. 20: 39. 



9. 

 Taxonomy: Compere, 1936, loc. cit. supra, p. 293. 

 Biology: Flanders, 1960. Jour. Econ. Ent. 53: 757. 

 Nomenclature: Peck, 1963, loc. cit. siipra, p. 294. 



'^similis (Masi). N. Amer.; Europe. Host: Aspidiotus perniciosus (Comst.). 

 Prospalta similis Masi, 1908. Lab. Zool. Portici Bol. 3: 148. 9. 

 * Prospaltella ilicis Mercet, 1921. R. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 50: 304. 5. (Syn. 



by Silvestri, 1927, loc. cit. supra, p. 36.) 

 Distribution : Flanders, 1960, loc. cit. supra, p. 757. 



Genus COCCOPHAGUS Wesfwood, pp. 439-441 



Taxonomy: Alam, 1956, loc. cit. supra, pp. 358, 363. — Tachikawa, 1957. 

 Japan. Jour. Appl. Ent. and Zool. 1: 61. — Zinna, 1961. Lab. Ent. 

 Agr. Portici Bol. 19: 303, 



albicoxa Howard. Hosts: Toumeyella pinicola Ferris, T. parvicornis (Ckll.). 



*basalis Compere. Calif. ; Brazil. 



Coccophagus basalis Compere, 1939. Calif. Univ. Pubs., Ent. 7: 86. ?. 

 Biology: Flanders, Bartlett, Fisher, 1961. Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 54: 

 227-236. 



capensis Compere. Calif.; S. Africa, Australia. 

 Biology: Clausen, 1956, loc. cit. supra, p. 93. 



cowperi Girault. Tex., Calif.; Africa, Israel. Hosts: Saissetia oleae (Bern.), 

 S. nigra (Niet.), Coccus hesperidum (L.). Incorrectly listed in 

 Catalog, p. 441, as a syn. of lycimnia (Walker) . 



