Superfamily TENTHREDINOIDEA 37 



U. S. Dept. Agr., Forest Pest Leaflet 31, 4 pp. -Hard and Schmiege, 1968. U. S. Dept. 



Agr., Forest Service Paper, PNW-65, 11 pp. (in s. e. Alaska). —Hard, 1971. U. S. Dept. 



Agr., Forest Service, Res. Note, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Expt. Sta. 157, 8 pp. 

 ventralis Ross. Colo. Host: Pinus ponderosa. 



Neodiprion ventralis Ross, 1955. Forest Sci. 1: 201, 206. 9, i. 

 werneri Ross. Ariz. (Pinelino Mts., Hospital Flat, 9000 ft.). 



Neodiprion werneri Ross, 1955. Forest Sci. 1: 200, 205. 9. 



Unplaced Taxa of Neodiprion Rohwer 



Two of the following species were described from males. Because the taxonomy of Neodiprion 

 is based primarily on females, they cannot be placed. 



abdominalis (Say), n. comb. "North-west Territory." 



Lophyrus abdominalis Say, 1824. In Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., v. 2 (App.), p. 315. 

 9. 

 edwardsii (Norton). Calif. 



Lophyrus edwardsii Norton, 1869. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 2: 330. 6. 



hypomelas (Rohwer). Colo. 



Lophyrus hypomelas Rohwer, 1908. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 16: 113. 6. 



Genus DIPRION Schrank 



Pteronus Jurine, 1801. Intell. Blatt. Litt-Ztg. Erlangen, v. 1, p. 163. Suppressed by 



Internatl. Comm. Zool. NomencL, Op. 157, 1936. 

 Diprion Schrank, 1802. Fauna Bioca, v. 2, p. 209. 



Type-species: Tenthredo pini Linnaeus. Desig. by Rohwer, 1910. 

 Lophyrus Latreille, 1802. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., v. 3, p. 302. Preocc. by Poli, 1791. 



Type-species: Tenthredo pini Linnaeus. Monotypic. 

 Anachoreta Gistel, 1848. Naturgesch. Thierr. f. hoh. SchuL, p. 9. N. name for Lophyrus 



Latreille. 

 Cristiger Gistel, 1848. Naturgesch. Thierr. f. hoh. Schul., p. 144. 



Type-species: Tenthredo pini Linnaeus. Monotypic. 



A Palaearctic genus of five or six species, one of which has been introduced into North Amer- 

 ica. 



similis (Hartig). Que., Maine, Ont. to Va. w. to Minn., Ind.; Europe. Introduced, first recorded 

 in Conn, in 1914, probably entering on imported nursery stock. Host: Pinus hanksiana, 

 P. cembra, P. divaricata, P.flexilis, P. moyitana, P. monticola, P. mugho, P. resinosa, P. 

 rigida, P. strobus, P. sylvestris, P. taeda, P. virginiana, and many other pines in 

 Europe. Introduced pine sawfly. 



Lophyrus similis Hartig, 1834. Forstl. Convers.-Lex., p. 987 b. 



Lophyrus eremita Thomson, 1871. Hym. Scand., v. 1, p. 62. 



Diprion simile var. atroscutellatum Enslin, 1916. Forstl. Naturw Ztschr. 14: 9. 



Diprion si7nile var. claristemis Enslin, 1916. Forstl. Naturw. Ztschr. 14: 9. 



Biology: Britton, 1916. Jour. Econ. Ent. 9: 281-282. — Zappe, 1917. Jour. Econ. Ent. 10: 

 188-190. -Middleton, 1923. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bui. 1182, 21 pp. —Hartley, 1923. Jour. Econ. 

 Ent. 16: 386-388 (in Pa.; parasites). — Munro, 1935. Canad. Ent. 67: 137-140. — Peirson, 



1943. Maine Forest Comm., Ed. 5, p. 15. -Schaffner, 1943. Jour. Forestry 41: 587. -Will, 



1944. Pa. Acad. Sci., Proc. 18: 49. — Tsao and Hodson, 1956. Jour. Econ. Ent. 49: 400. 



— Coppel, 1960. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 53: 847 (cocoons as habitats for other Arthropods). 

 — Coppel, Casida, and Dauterman, 1960. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 53: 510-512 (sex 

 attractants). —Anderson and Schmiege, 1961. U. S. Dept. Agr., Forest Service, Lake 

 States Forest Expt. Sta. Paper 88, p. 7. — Mertins, 1961. Wis. Acad. Sci. Arts and Letters, 

 Trans. 59: 127-168. — Finlayson, 1962. Canad. Ent. 271-282 (parasites). —Casida, Coppel, 

 and Watanabe, 1963. Jour. Econ. Ent. 56: 18-24. —Wilson, 1966. U. S. Dept. Agr., Forest 

 Pest Leaflet 99, 4 pp. —Mertins and Coppel, 1971. Ann. Ent. Soc, Amer. 64: 1191-1192 

 (sexual behavior in gynandromorphs). —Baker, 1972. U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 1175, pp. 

 450-451. 



