340 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Type-species: Pimpla spectabilis Matsumura. Monotypic and orig. desig. The 

 type-species is considered to be a subspecies of /. altemans (Gravenhorst). 



Revision: Porter, 1970. Acta Zool. Lilloana 26 (6): 65-103 (S. Amer. spp.). 

 behrensii (Cresson). Calif. Host: Phryganidia califomica Pack. /. bekrensii is not known to 

 occur north of Marin Co., Calif. 



Pimpla bekrensii Cresson, 1879 (1878). Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 30: 377. 6, 9. 

 conquisitor (Say). N. S. s. to Fla., w. to B. C. and Ariz. Host: Hyaloscotes pithopoera (Dyar), 

 Oiketicus abbotii Grt., Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (Haw.), Coleophora frischella 

 (L.), C. pruniella Clem., Epermenia cicutaella Kft., Anacampsis inocuella (Zell.), 

 Dichomeris marginella (F.), C horistoneura conflictana (Wlk.), C.fumiferana (Clem.), 

 Choristoneura lambertiana (Bsk.), C. pinus Free., Aphelia alleniana (Fern.), Archips 

 argyrospilus (Wlr.), A. cerasivoranus (Fitch), A. georgianus (Wlk.), A. rileyanus (Grt.), 

 Argyrotaenia cockerellana (Kft.) A. pinatubana (Kft.), A. velutinana (Wlk.), Acleris 

 hastiana (L.), A. mimita (Rob.), Cnephasia virgaureana Treit., Sparganothis pettitana 

 (Rob.), S. flavibasana (Fern.), Xenotemna pallorana Rob., Ancylis comptana (Froel.), A. 

 c.fragariae (W. and R.), Evora hemidesma (Zell.), Paralobesia viteana (Clem.), 

 Rhyacionia buoliana (D. and S.), R.fnistrana (Com.), R.frustrana bushnelli (Bsk.), 

 Spilonota ocellana (D. and S.), Pterophorus periscelidactylus Fitch, Acrobasis betulella 

 Hulst, A. caryvoriella Rag., A. juglandis (LeB.), A. kearf'ottella Dyar, A. rubrifasciella 

 Pack., Dioryctria reniculella (Grt.), Diaphania hyalinata (L.), Ostrinia nubilalis (Hbn.), 

 Cingilia catenaria (Drury), Lambdina fervidaria athasaria (Wlk.), L. fiscellaria 

 fiscellaria (Gn.), Ennomos subsignariiis (Hbn.), Nematocampa filamentaria Gn., 

 Rhetimaptera hastata (L.), Dryocampa nibicunda nibicunda (F.), Malacosoma 

 americanum (F.), M. disstria Hbn., M. calif omicum fragile (Stretch), Dasychira 

 plagiata (Wlk.), Lymantria dispar (L.), Orgyia antiqua (L.), 0. leucostigma (J. E. S.), 

 Alabama argillacea (Hbn.), Anomis erosa Hbn., Exyra semicrocea (Gn.), Simyra henrici 

 (Grt.), Trichoplusia ni (Hbn.), Lascoria ambigualis (Wlk.), Hyphantria cunea (Drury), 

 Hemileuca sp., Urbanus proteus (L.), Thymelicus lineola (Ochs.), Pieris rapae (L.), 

 Graphium marcellus (Cramer), Diprion similis (Htg.), Neodiprion abietis (Harr.), 

 Rogas stigrmator (Say), R. terminalis (Cr.), Dusona ellopiae (Wly.), Gambrus extrematus 

 (Cr.), Hyposoter fugitivus (Say), Phobocampe clisiocampae (Weed), P. pallipes (Prov.). 



Ichneumon concitator (!) Harris, 1833. In Hitchcock, Rpt. Geol. Mineral. Bot. Zool. Mass. p. 

 587. Nomen nudum. 



Cryptus conquisitor Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 232. 9. 



Cryptus pleurivinctus Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 235. (5,9. 



Pimpla pictipes Walsh, 1873. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 3: 135. 9 . Preocc. by 

 Gravenhorst, 1829. 



Pimpla walshii Dalla Torre, 1901. Cat. Hym., v. 3, p. 454. N. name for P. pictipes Walsh. 



Pimpla conquisitrix Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 104. Emend. 



Ephialtes (Itoplectis) temnopleuris Cushman, 1920. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 350. 9 . 



Biology: Gorham, 1847. DeBow's Rev. 3: 539-541. — Comstock, 1879. Rpt. on Cotton Insects, 

 p. 198-200. —Riley, 1886. U. S. Dept. Agr., Ent. Comn. Rpt. 4: 111-113. —Weed and Fiske, 

 1900. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent. Bui. 26: 33-34. -Fiske, 1903. N. H. Agr. Expt. Sta., Tech. 

 Bui. 6: 184-230. —Johnston, 1913. Jour. Econ. Ent. 6: 144-147. — Baird, 1918. Agr. Gaz. 

 Canada 5: 770-771. -Criddle, 1924. Ent. Soc. Ontario, Ann. Rpt. 54: 17-18. — Schedl, 1931. 

 Ztschr. f. Angew. Ent. 18: 258-260. -Haden, 1935. Del. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bui. 194: 20-35. 

 -Townes, 1940. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 33: 318-320. — Leius, 1960. Canad. Ent. 92: 369-376. 

 -Leius, 1961. Canad. Ent. 93: 771-780. -Arthur, 1962-1972. Canad. Ent. 94: 337-347 

 (1962); 95: 1078-1091 (1963); 97: 1000-1001 (1965); 98: 213-223 (1966); 104: 1251-1258 (1972). 



Morphology: Peck, 1937. Canad. Jour. Res., Sect. D (Zool. Sci.) 15: 245, 452. —Pratt, 1939. 

 Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 32: 731. 

 curticauda brevacus Townes. Que., Maine, Ont., Vt., N. Y., Mich., Mont. /. curticauda 

 ctirticauda (Kriechbaumer) occurs in Europe. 

 Itoplectis brevacus Townes, 1940. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 33: 315. 9. 

 evetriae Viereck. N. B. s. to n. Ga., w. to Alaska and Calif. Host: Barbara sp., B. colfaxiana 

 siskiyouana (Kft.), B. colfaxiana taxifoliella (Bsk.), B. mappana Free., Zeiraphera sp. 



