88 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Biology: Lindquist, 1959. Canad. Ent. 91: 625-627 (ahimna, not MacGillivray). —Watson, 

 1959. Canad. Ent. 91: 618-625 {ahimna not MacGillivray). —Martin, 1960. Canad. Ent. 92: 

 376-384. 



Genus NEFUSA Ross 



Nefusa Ross, 1951. In Muesebeck et al., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2, p. 31. 

 Type-species: Nefusa anita MacGillivray. Orig. desig. 



The single species in this genus is known only from North America. 



ambigua (Norton). Que., Maine to Tenn. w. to Wis. Ecology: A leafminer. Host: Viola. 

 Fenusa ambiguus Norton, 1867. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 1: 225. 3. 

 Messa anita MacGillivray, 1923. 111. Univ. Bui. 20(50): 23. 9. 



Biology: Shaw, 1940. Jour. Econ. Ent. 33: 951 {Fenusa sp.). 



Genus PROLATUS Smith 



Prolatus Smith, 1967. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 69: 282. 

 Type-species: Prolatus artus Smith. Orig. desig. 



A monotypic genus known only from western North America. 



artus Smith. Oreg. 



Prolatus artus Smith, 1967. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 69: 283. 9, 6 (?). 



Genus FENUSA Leach 



Fenusa Leach, 1817. Zool. Misc., v. 3, p. 126. 



Type-species: Tenthredo (Emphytus) puynila Klug. Monotypic. 

 Kaliosysphinga Tischbein, 1846. Stettin Ent. Ztg. 7: 79. 



Type-species: Kaliosysphinga dohrnii Tischbein. Monotypic. 

 Aphadnurus Costa, 1859. Fauna del Regno di NapoH, Imen., pt. 3, p. 40. 



Type-species: Aphadnurus tantillus Costa. Monotypic. 

 Caliosysphinga Konow, 1905. In Wytsmann, Gen. Ins., v. 29, p. 89. Emend. 

 Kaliofenusa Viereck, 1910. N. J. State Mus., Ann. Rpt. 1909, p. 591. 



Type-species: Fenusa ulmi Sundevall. Monotypic. 



A genus of several species most of which are holarctic though two of them were probably in- 

 troduced into this continent. 



dohrnii (Tischbein). Newfoundland to Pa. w. to B. C, Oreg., Utah., N. Mex.; Europe; Japan; S. 

 Africa. Ecology: A widespread leafminer. Host: Alnus. European alder leafminer. 

 Kaliosysphinga dohrnii Tischbein, 1846. Stettin Ent. Ztg. 7: 80. 

 Fenusa curtis Norton, 1861. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 1: 199. 9. 

 Phaenusa melanopoda Cameron, 1876. Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc, Proc. 3: 6. 

 Fenusa nigricans Thomson, 1870. Opusc. Ent., 2nd Fasc, p. 271. 

 Fenella westwoodi Cameron, 1882. Monog. Brit. Phytophagous Hym., v. 1, p. 289. 



Biology: Slingerland, 1905. N. Y. (Cornell) Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 233: 49-62. — Frankenhuyzen, 

 1970. Ent. Ber. 30: 49-52 (in Netherlands). 

 pusilla (Lepeletier). Newfoundland to Md. w. to Ont., Minn., Iowa; Wash., Oreg.; Europe. 



Ecology: A leafminer. Introduced, first reported in Conn, in 1925. Host: Betula. Birch 



leafminer. 

 Tenthredo (Eynphytus) pumila Klug, 1814. Mag. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 8: 277. 



Preocc. 

 Dolerus (Fenusai) pusillus Lepeletier, 1823. Monog. Tenthred., p. 120. 

 Tenthredo pygmaea Zetterstedt, 1838. Ins. Lapp., v. 1, p. 340. 9, d. 

 Aphadnurus tantillus Costa, 1859. Fauna del Regno di Napoli, Imen., pt. 3, p. 41. cJ. 

 Fenusa fuliginosa Healy, 1869. Entomologist 4: 225-227. 

 Fenusa minima Brischke, 1883. Schrift. Naturf. Gesell. Danzig 4: 264. 9. 



