Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 423 



Aenoplegimorpha Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 42: 147. 



Type-species: Aenoplegimorpha phytonomi Viereck. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



Townes (1970) said that Theroscopus "is a large genus of Holarctic distribution; the hosts are 

 probably various small cocoons." 



Taxonomy: Cushman, 1939. Wash. Acad. Sci., Jour. 29: 395-396. -Perkins, 1962. Brit. Mus. 

 (Nat. Hist.) Ent., Bui. 11: 392. -Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 12: 101. 

 — Frilli, 1973. Entomologica 9: 95. 

 nigriceps (Ashmead). Calif. 



Hemiteleft nigriceps Ashmead, 1890 (1889). U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 12: 400. 9. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 12: 101. 

 ruflcoxus (Provancher). Que. s. to Conn., w. to Alta. and Utah.; Eurasia. Adventive? Host: 



Hypera po.stica (Gyll.). The name which has most frequently been applied to this species 

 is micator (Gravenhorst), but the original description of Ichneumon micator 

 Gravenhorst (1807) cannot apply to this species primarily because Gravenhorst 

 specifically described the female (male not described) as having the scape 

 yellowish-brown and only the apices of abdominal tergites 1 and 2 yellowish-brown; in 

 addition, the micator female apparently has black coxae. Cushman (1922) apparently 

 based his suppression of Aenoplegimoi-pha phytonomi as a synonym of micator upon a 

 specimen in the U. S. Natl. Museum collection identified as micator by Schmiedeknecht. 

 The European concept of micator apparently had evolved from Gravenhorst's (1829) 

 expanded definition of the species. Dr. Klaus Horstmann told me (personal commun., 

 1976) that Gravenhorst (1829) described a senior synonym of riificoxus, and its identity 

 will probably be published prior to the appearance of this catalog. 



Hemiteles ruficoxus Provancher, 1874. Nat. Canad. 6: 331. 6,9. 



PhygadeuoncornutuH Provancher, 1882. Nat. Canad. 13 (no. 155): 334 (key); 13 (no. 156): 

 356. 9. 



Hemiteh'H politus Bridgman, 1883. Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 31: 146. 9. Uncertain syn.; 

 placed as a synonym of micator by Horstmann (1972). 



Phaeogenes recticor)iis Provancher, 1886. Addit. Corr. Faune Ent. Canada Hym., p. 42. 6, 

 9. 



Aenoplegimorpha phytonomi Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 42: 147. 6. 



Hemiteles (Eriplanus) metaconiet Viereck, 1917 (1916). Conn. State Geol. and Nat. Hist. 

 Survey Bui. 22: 340. 9. 



Phygadeuon silesiacus Habermehl, 1919. Ztschr. f. Wiss. Insectenbiol. 15: 104. 9. 

 Uncertain syn.; placed as a synonym of micator by Habermehl (1926). 



Taxonomy: Gravenhorst, 1807. Vergl. Uebers. Zool. Systeme, p. 260. —Gravenhorst, 1829. 

 Ichn. Europaea, v. 2, p. 832. —Cushman, 1922. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 24: 64. —Roman, 

 1925 (1924). Arikiv for Zool. 17 A (4): 15-16. -Habermehl, 1926. Deut. Ent. Ztschr. (for 

 1926), p. 331. —Horstmann, 1972. Entomologist 105: 220. 



Biology: Webster, 1912. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Bui. 112: 34. — Boulanger, 1969. Ent. Soc. 

 Wash., Proc. 71: 149-150. 

 scapiphorus (Provancher). Que., Mass., R. I., N. Y. 



Atractodes scapiphoriin Provancher, 1874. Nat. Canad. 6: 151. 6. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1939. Canad. Ent. 71: 92. -Barron, 1975. Nat. Canad. 102: 561. 



Genus MEGACARA Townes 



Megacara Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 12: 102. 

 Type-species: Phygadeuon litcens Provancher. Orig. desig. 



This is a small Holarctic genus, with liicens (Provancher) being the only described Nearctic 

 species. 



lucens (Provancher). Que., Wash. 



Phygadeuon lucois Provancher, 1874. Nat. Canad. 6: 281. 9. 



