Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 291 



NoMEN Nudum in Microctonus Wesmael 

 Microctonus dorsalia Ashmead, 1895. In Slosson, Ent. News 6: 317. 



Genus MYIOCEPHALUS Marshall 



Myiocephalus Marshall, 1897. /)( Andre, Spec. Hym. Eur. Alg., v. 5 bis, p. 218. 



Type-species: Microctoyius boops Wesmael. Monotypic. 

 Spilomma Morley, 1909. Ent. Monthly Mag. 45: 211. 



Type-species: Spilonivia falco)iivibra)ift Morley. Monotypic. 



Hosts for this genus are not known, but one European species was associated with nests of 

 the ant genus Fontiica. 



Taxonomy: Muesebeck, 1936. U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 241: 21. — Shenefelt, 1969. Hym. 

 Cat., part 4, p. 115-116 (cat. World spp.). 

 hoops (Wesmael). Holarctic. 



Microctonus hoops Wesmael, 1835. Nouv. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bruxelles 9: 59. 9. 

 Ganio.secus laticeps Provancher, 1886. Addit. Corr. Faune Ent. Canada Hym., p. 126. 9. 

 Aphidius hedini Fahringer, 1929. Arkiv. fur Zool. 21 (A): 2. S. 



Taxonomy: Muesebeck, 1936. U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 241, p. 22. — Stary, 1959. Beitr. 

 Ent. 9: 187-188. 



Genus PERILITUS Nees 



Perilifiis Nees, 1818. Nov. Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. Car. 9: 302. 



Type-species: Bracon rutilis Nees. Desig. by Westwood, 1840. 

 Dinocanipus Foerster, 1862. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verh. 19: 252. 



Type-species: Bracon terniinatns Nees. Orig. desig. 



Species in this genus are parasitic on adult Coleoptera, particularly Coccinellidae and 

 Chrysomelidae. Tobias (1965) treats Dijiocanipu.s as a distinct genus. 



Taxonomy: Muesebeck, 1936. U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 241, p. 11-13 (No. Amer. spp.). 

 —Tobias, 1965. Ent. Obozr. 44: 842 (restored Dinocampus). —Shenefelt, 1969. Hym. Cat., 

 part 4, p. 30-33, 117-122 (cat. World spp.). 



Biology: Jackson, 1928. Zool. Soc. London, Proc. 1928: 597-630 (biol. of rutilis (Nees) in 

 Europe). -Smith, 1953. Ohio Jour. Sci. 53: 175-176 (host list). 

 coccinellae (Schrank). Cosmopolitan. Host: Adonia variegafa (Goeze), Coccinella colifornica 



Mann., C. noveninotata Hbst., C. quinquepunctata L., C. septempunctata L., C. 



trifascicta Juliana Muls., Coleoniegilla niac7ilata fuscilabris (Muls.), C. m. macidata 



(DeGeer), C. m. lengi Timb., Cycloneda sanguinea (L.), Halyzia quattnordecimguttata 



(L.), Hippodamia convergens Guer. 

 Ichneumon coccinellae Schrank, 1802. Fauna Boica, v. 2, p. 310. 9. 

 Bracon tenninatus Nees, 1812 (1811). Mag. Gesell. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 5: 26. 9, d. 

 Euphorus sculptus Cresson, 1872. Canad. Ent. 4: 227. 9. 

 Cetitistes aniericana Riley, 1888. U. S. Dept. Agr., Insect Life 1: 103. 9. 



Biology: Cushman, 1913. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 15: 153-155. — Stich, 1929. Ztschr. f. Wiss. 

 Insektenbiol. 24: 91-95. —Ibrahim, 1955. Soc. Ent. d' Egypte, Bui. 39: 414-416. — Hudon, 

 1959. Canad. Ent. 91: 63-64. -Walker, 1961. Ent. Monthly Mag. 97: 240-244. —Ford, 1971. 

 Ent. Gaz. 22: 2. — Richerson and DeLoach, 1972. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 65: 834-839. 

 -Benton and Crump, 1975. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 33: 60-63. 



pyri (Viereck). Conn., N. J. 



Dinocanipus pyri Viereck, 1917 (1916). Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. Survey, Bui. 22: 

 225. 9. 



NoMEN Nudum in Perilitus Nees 



Perilitus hopkinsi Ashmead, 1911. In Viereck, Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 13: 95. 



