SuperfamUy ICHNEUMONOIDEA 351 



Poemenia Holmgren, 1859. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad., Ofvers af ... Forhandl. 16: 130. 



Type-species: Poemenia notata Holmgren. Monotypic. 

 Calliclisis Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verh. 25: 169. 



Type-species: Ephialtes hecticus Gravenhorst. Desig. by Viereck, 1914 from three 

 species included by Schmiedeknecht, 1888. 

 Phthinodes Tschek, 1868. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, Verb. 18: 272. 

 Type-species: Ephialtes hecticus Gravenhorst. Monotypic. 

 Euxorides Cresson, 1870. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 3: 167. 



Type-species: Euxorides americanus Cresson. Monotypic. 

 Ophiogastra Ashmead, 1900. Canad. Ent. 32: 368. N. name for Ophiodes Hartig. 

 Lisso7iotopsis Habermehl, 1917. Ztschr. f. Wiss. Insektenbiol. 13: 234, 306. 

 Type-species: Lissonotopsis rnfa Habermehl. Monotypic. 

 Members of this genus may all be parasites of aculeate Hymenoptera which nest in wood, 

 abandoned plant galls, and similar situations. 



Revision: Habeck and Townes, 1960. hi Townes and Townes, U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 216 (pt. 

 2): 376-387. 



albipes (Cresson). N. S. s. to S. C. and La., w. to B. C. and Calif. 



Ephialtes albipes Cresson, 1870. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 3: 143. 9. 



Morphology: Pratt, 1939. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 32: 735. 

 americana americana (Cresson). N. S. s. to Fla., w. to Great Lakes. Host: Passaloecus 

 cuspidatus Sm. 

 Eiixorides americanus Cresson, 1870. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 3: 167. 9. 

 americana nebulosa Habeck and Townes. Ont., Cole, Ariz., B. C. s. to Calif. Ecology: This 

 subspecies has been associated with Passaloecus relativus Fox, Osmia sp., Paratimia 

 conicola Fisher, and Laspeyresia piperana (Bsk.) in rearings from cones of Pinus spp. 

 Poemenia americana nebulosa Habeck and Townes, 1960. In Townes and Townes, U. S. 

 Natl. Mus., Bui. 216 (pt. 2): 383. 6,9. 



pacifica Habeck and Townes. Wash. s. to Calif. Ecology: This species has been reared from 

 galls of Disholcaspis truckeensis (Ash.) and also from the galls of another cynipid from 

 which a "chrysid-Uke bee" also emerged. This species is closely related to Poemenia 

 notata Holmgren. 

 Poemenia pacifica Habeck and Townes, 1960. In Townes and Townes, U. S. Natl. Mus. 

 Bui. 216 (pt. 2): 385. 6,9. 



thoracica (Cresson). Sask. s. to Colo., w. to B. C. and Calif. Host: Osmia lingnaria propinqua 



Cr. 

 Ephialtes thoracicus Cresson, 1879 (1878). Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc 30: 377. 9. 

 Euxorides Vancouveriensis Provancher, 1888. Addit. Corr. Faune Ent. Canada Hym., p. 



369. 9. 

 Ephialtes vancouverensis Harrington, 1894. Canad. Ent. 26: 249. 9. 



Genus PODOSCHISTUS Townes 



Podoschistus Townes, 1960. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 59: 18. 

 Type-species: Xorides vittifrons Cresson. Orig. desig. 

 vittifrons (Cresson). Maine s. to Ga., w. to Oreg. and Tex. Ecology: One specimen of this 

 species was reared from Tetropinm velutinum in Larix occidentalis, but otherwise 

 vittifrons has been associated with or reared from borers in hardwoods. Host: 

 Tetropium velutinum LeC, Graphisurus fasciatus (DeG.). 



Xorides vittifrons Cresson, 1868. Canad. Ent. 1: 37. 9. 



Podoschistus vittifrons schlingeri Townes, 1960. hi Townes and Townes, U. S. Natl. Mus. 

 Bui. 216 (pt. 2): 388. 9 . N. syn.. The description of this synonym was based upon a single 

 female from Utah which shows a minor difference in the coloration of the hind tibia, 

 that difference not being found in the single male known to me from Oregon. 



Morphology: Pratt, 1939. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 32: 735. 



