Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 447 



Type-species: Ichneitmon cinctorius Fabricius. Monotypically included and desig. by 

 Townes, Townes, and Gupta, 1961. 

 Dapaniis Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 183. 



Type-species: Ichneumon cinctorius Fabricius. Monotypically included and desig. by 

 'Ashmead. 1900. 

 Soba.s Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 25: 187. Preocc. by Pascoe, 1863. 



Type-species: Ichneumon cinctoriux Fabricius. Monotypically included and desig. by 

 Schmiedeknecht, 1890. 

 Trichocryptus Thomson, 1873. Opusc. Ent. 5: 520, 521. 



Type-species: Crypfus cinctorius Gravenhorst. Monotypic. The type-species is 

 Gravenhorst's identification of Ichneumon cinctorius Fabricius. 

 Neostricklandia Viereck, 1925. Canad. Ent. 57: 75. 



Type-species: Neostricklandia sericata Viereck. Monotypic. and orig. desig. 

 Trichestema Cushman, 1927. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 72 (13): 9. 



Type-species: Trichestema helcostizoides Cushman. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



The members of this small Holarctic genus parasitize aquatic or subaquatic Pyraloidea. There 

 is an undescribed species which is known from Fla. and Cuba; it has been reared from Samea 

 niultiplicalis Gn. 



bicolor (Cushman). Ont. and Mass., s. to Md., w. to Alta., Wash, and Calif. Host: Schoenobius 

 nielinellus (Clem.). 

 Trichocryptus bicolor Cushman, 1927. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 72 (13): 8. 9. 

 Trichocryptus atlanticus Cushman, 1930 (1929). U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 76 (25): 3. 9. 

 hirtifrons (Ashmead). Ont. and Mass. s. to Fla., w. to Minn, and Tex. Host: Nymphula sp. 

 Cryptus hirtifrons Ashmead, 1890 (1889). U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 12: 411. 6. 

 Cryptus cyaniventris Riley, 1890. In Riley and Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr., Insect Life 3: 

 154. Nomen nudum. 



Taxonomy: Cushman, 1927. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 72 (13): 7. 



Biology: Hart, 1895. 111. Nat. Hist. Survey, Bui. 4: 178-179. 

 sericata (Viereck). Que. w. to Alta., s. to Mass., Mich., and S. Dak. Host: Occidentalia 

 comptulatalis (Hulst), Stenochilo forbesellus (Fern.). 

 Neostricklandia sericata Viereck, 1925. Canad. Ent. 57: 75. 9. 

 Trichestema helcostizoides Cushman, 1927. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 72 (13): 9. 9. 



Biology: Frohne, 1939. Amer. Micros. Soc, Trans. 58: 234, 325, 347. 



Genus AGROTHEREUTES Foerster 



Agrothereufes Foerster, 1850. Arch. f. Naturgesch. 16 (1): 71. 



Type-species: Pezomachus abbreviator Gravenhorst. Desig. by Viereck, 1914. The 

 type-species is Gravenhorst's identification oi Ichneumon abbreviator Fabricius. 

 Spilocryptus Thomson, 1873. Opusc. Ent. 5: 472, 501. 



Type-species: Spilocryptus zygaenarum Thomson. Desig. by Viereck, 1914. The 

 type-species is regarded as a synonym oi A. fumipennis (Gravenhorst). 

 Dayro Cameron, 1902. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) 9: 209. 

 Type-species: Dayro pilosus Cameron. Monotypic. 



This Holarctic genus has a greater number of species in Eurasia than in North America. 



abbreviator iridescens (Cresson). Northern Que. w. to Alaska, s. to N. C, La., Kans., Sask., 

 and Alta. Host: Gilpinia hercyniae (Htg.), Heterarthrus nemoratus (Fall.), Neodiprion 

 abietis (Harris), A'^. lecontei (Fitch), N. sertifer (Geoff.), Pristiphora erichsonii (Htg.), 

 Paraclemensia acerifolia (Fitch), Paralobesia viteana (Clem.). A. abbreviator 

 abbreviator (Fabricius) occurs in Europe. In their tribal revision, Townes and Townes 

 (1962) divided iridescens into two arbitrarily and unnaturally separated subspecies 

 supposedly based upon a combination of color and female wing length (normal versus 

 brachypterus). 



Cryptus iridescens Cresson, 1864. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 3: 296. 6. 



Cryptus soror Cresson, 1864. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 3: 296. S. 



