SPHECIDAE 399 



Tribe AMMOBIINI 



[ = Tribes Sphecini of Catalog and Chlorionin'i of Sup. 1) 



Revision: Bohart and Menke, 1963, loc. cit. supra, pp. 117-160. 



The tribal heading must be changed because Bohart and Menke trans- 

 ferred Chlorion Latreille to Tribe Sceliphronini. 



Genus AMMOBIA Billberg, Sup. 1, p. 190 

 ( = Spfiex subg. Sphex Linnaeus, pp. 971—972, of Catalog) 



Raised to generic rank by Evans and Lin, 1956. Amer. Ent. Soc. Trans. 

 81: 139. 



ashmeadi (Fernald). Idaho, Utah, Nev., Calif. 



*dorsalis (Lepeletier) . Southern U. S., Fla. and Ga. to Calif.; Central and 



South America. 

 Sphex dorsalis Lepeletier, 1845. Hist. Nat. Ins., Hym., v. 3, p. 347. $. 

 Sphex (Sphex) singularis Smith (syn. by Bohart and Menke, 1963, loc. 



cit. supra, p. 127). 



flavitarsis (Fernald), changed status. Va. to Fla., west to Tex.; Mexico 

 (Durango) . 

 Sphex (Sphex) opacus flaiHtarsis (Fernald). Raised to specific rank 

 {teste Bohart and Menke, 1963, loc. cit. supra, p. 121). 



habena (Say). Md. to Fla., west to Ark. and Tex.; Mexico. 



ichneumonea (Linnaeus), changed status. Southern Canada, U. S., south to 

 Brazil and Peru. Delete jamaicensis (Drury), a valid sp., and its 

 synonym ornata (Lepeletier), from synonymy. 



ichneumoneus aurifluus Perty. Syn. of jamaicensis (Drury). 



icheum oneus fulviventris Guerin. Syn. of jamaicensis (Drury). 



jamaicensis (Drury). Fla.; West Indies, ? S. America. 



Sphex (Sphex) ichneumon piis ichneumoneus (Linnaeus) of Catalog, in 



part. Remove jamaicensis and its syn., ornata Lepeletier, from 



syn. of ichneumoneus {teste Bohart and Menke, 1963, loc. cit. 



supra, p. 125) . 

 Sphex (Sphex) ichneumoneus aurifluus Perty (syn. by Bohart and 



Menke, 1963, loc. cit. supra, p. 125). 

 Sphex (Sphex) ichneumoneus fulviventris Guerin (syn. by Bohart and 



Menke, 1963, loc. cit. supra, p. 125). 



lucae Saussure. Transfer to Fernaldina Bohart and Menke. 



opacus flavitarsis (Fernald). Raised to specific rank. 



singularis (Smith). Syn. of dorsalis (Lepeletier). 



tepaneca (Saussure). Tex. (Alpine); Mexico. Prey: Tettigoniidae. 

 Biology: Gillaspy, 1962. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. Bui. 57: 15-17. 

 Taxonomy: Evans, 1964, loc. cit. supra, pp. 237-238, figs. 1-4 (larva). 



texana (Cresson). Kans., Okla., Ariz. 



"■Genus FERNALDINA Bohart and Menke 



Fernaldina Bohart and Menke, 1963. Univ. Calif. Pubs. Ent. 30 : 130. 



Type: Sphex lucae Saussure. By monotypy and orig. desig. 



Place before Isodontia, p. 972. 



lucae (Saussure). Southeastern and western U. S., B. C; northern Mexico. 

 Transferred from Sphex subg. Sphex, p. 972. 

 Biology: Linsley, 1962. Ent. Soc. Amer. Ann. 55: 156-157, fig. 4. 



Genus ISODONTIA Patfon 

 ( = Ch/ori*on subgenus Isodontia Patton, pp. 972-973) 



