250 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



luteipennis Muesebeck. Va. Host: Speyeria sp.(?). 



Apajiteles luteipennis Muesebeck, 1921. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 527. 9. 

 lyciae Muesebeck. Maine. Host: Biston cognatona (Guen.). 



Apanteles lyciae Muesebeck, 1926. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 69 (7): 16. 9. 

 mahoniae Mason. Idaho, B. C. Host: Coryphista meadi Pack. 



Apayiteles mahoniae Mason, 1975. Canad. Ent. 107: 1133. 9, cJ. 

 marginiventris (Cresson). Del. s. to Fla., w. to Ind., Kans. and Tex.; Wis., Ariz., Calif.; Mexico, 

 West Indies, So. Amer., Hawaii. Host: Agrotis ipsilmi (Hufn.), Anagrapha falcifera 

 (Kirby), Autographa precationis (Gn.), Auioplusia egena (Guen.), Heliothis virescens 

 {¥.), H. zea (Boddie), Hymenia perspectalis (Hbn.), H. recurvalis (F.), Leucania 

 latitiscula U.S., L. multisulca Wlkr., Peridroma saiicia (Hbn.), Plathypena scabra (F.), 

 Pseudaletia unipuncta (Haw.), Pseudoplusia includens (Wlkr.), Scotorytkra caryopsis 

 Meyr., Spodoptera eridania (Cram.), S. exigua (Hbn.), S.fnigiperda (Smith), S. 

 omithogalli (Guen.), S. praefica (Grote), Trichoplusia ni (Hbn.). 

 Microgaster marginiventris Cresson, 1865. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 4: 67. 9, S . 

 Apanteles grenadensis Ashmead, 1900. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 1900: 278. 9,6. 

 Apanteles laphygmae Ashmead, 1901. In Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Bui. 29, 



p. 36. Nomen nudum. 

 Apanteles (Protapanteles) hamedi Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 43: 580. 9. 



Biology: Luginbill, 1928. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 34, p. 68-69. -Vickery, 1929. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Tech. Bui. 138, p. 25-28. — Boling and Pitre, 1970. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 43: 465-470. 

 medicaginis Muesebeck. N. Mex., Utah, Ariz., Nev., Calif.; Mexico. Host: Colias eurytheme 

 Bdvl. 

 Apanteles medicaginis Muesebeck, 1947. Pan-Pacific Ent. 23: 21. 9, 6. 



Biology: Michelbacher and Smith, 1943. Hilgardia 15: 369-397 (as Apanteles flavicoiichae 

 Riley). -Allen, 1958. Hilgardia 27: 515-541. —Allen and Smith, 1958. Hilgardia 28: 1-42. 

 —Stern and Bowen, 1963. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 56: 358-372. 

 megathymi Riley. N. C, S. C, Ga., La., N. Mex., Ariz., Calif.; Mexico. Host: Agathymus 

 stephensi (Skin.), Megathymus comstocki Harb., M. ursus ui-siis Poling, M. yuccae 

 martini (S. and T.), M. y. reinthali Freem., M. y. yuccae (Bdvl. and Lee). 

 Apanteles megathymi Riley, 1881. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 4: 304. 9, 6. 



melanopus Viereck. Conn. 



Apanteles (Apaiiteles) melanopus Viereck, 1917 (1916). Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. 

 Survey, Bui. 22, p. 190, 198. 

 melanoscelus (Ratzeburg). New England, east. Canada, B. C, Wash., Oreg.; Europe, N. Africa. 

 Introduced from Europe. Host: Lymantria dispar (L.), Stilpnotia salicis (L.). 

 Microgaster melanoscelus Ratzeburg, 1844. Ichn. d. Forstins. 1: 74. S. 

 Microgaster solitarius Ratzeburg, 1844. Ichn. d. Forstins. 1: 73. 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Nixon, 1974. Bui. Ent. Res. 64: 469 (synonymy). 



Biology: Grossman, 1922. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bui. 1028, p. 1-25 {ynelanoscelus). —Muesebeck 

 and Dohanian, 1927. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bui. 1487, p. 1-34 (melanoscelus). —Parker, 1935. U. 

 S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 477, p. 1-17 (solitarius). —Clausen, 1956. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. 

 Bui. 1139, p. 79-80. -Dowden, 1962. U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Handb. 226, p. 48-49. 

 — Weseloh, 1973. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 66: 854-855 (melanoscelus). — Weseloh, 1973. Jour. 

 Ins. Physiol. 19: 2025-2033. —Van Sickle and Weseloh, 1974. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 82: 2-5. 

 —Weseloh, 1974. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 67: 583-587 (host recognition). —Weseloh and 

 Anderson, 1975. Environ. Ent. 4: 33-36. -Weseloh, 1976. Environ. Ent. 5: 743-746, 

 1128-1132. 

 miantonomoi Viereck. Conn., Pa., Mich. 



Apanteles (Apanteles) mianto7iomoi Viereck, 1917 (1916). Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. 



Survey, Bui. 22, p. 198. 

 Apanteles (Apanteles) pequodonim Viereck, 1917 (1916). Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. 



Survey, Bui. 22, p. 198. 



