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pulchella coriacea Dasch. P. E. I. s. to w. N. C, w. to n.w. Mich, and s.e. Minn. Dasch said "S. 

 pulchella coriacea is most closely related to nigrithorax ..."; nigrithorax has a range 

 which overlaps that known for S. pulchella pulchella (Holmgren) in North America (see 

 foregoing discussion of nigrithorax). 

 Sussaba pulchella coriacea Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 3: 247. cJ, 9. 

 pulchella pulchella (Hohngren). Northern Que., N. W. T.; Europe; n. India. 



Bassus pulckellus Holmgren, 1858 (1856). Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. (n. f.) 1: 366. d, 



9. 

 Bass2is aciculatus Ruthe, 1859. Stettin. Ent. Ztg. 20: 373. 9. 

 Sussaba bicarinata Cameron, 1909. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, Jour. 19: 728. 9. 

 punctiventris (Thomson). Boreal Que. w. to s. Yukon, s. to Mass., n. Mich., Colo., Ariz., and 

 Oreg.; Europe. 

 Homotropus punctiventris Thomson, 1890. Opusc. Ent. 14: 1500. 9. 

 rohweri (Brues). Southeastern Sask., s. Yukon, and Alaska, s. to N. Mex., Ariz., and n. Calif.; 

 Mexico. Host: Metasyrphus perplexus (Osb.). The occurrence of this species at Nome, 

 Alaska (on the Seward Peninsula) makes it highly probable that it will prove to be 

 Holarctic. 

 Promethes rohweri Brues, 1908. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 6: 51. S, 9. 

 rugipleuris ellesmerae Dasch. Northern N. W. T. Known from a series of 67 specimens 



collected at one locality on the eastern side of EUesmere Island. It seems unlikely that 

 this taxon could represent anything more than the end of a cline. 

 Sussaba rugipleuris ellesmerae Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 3: 263. S, 9. 

 rugipleuris rugipleuris Dasch. N. W. T., s.e. Wyo., n. Yukon, Alaska. 



Sussaba rugipleuris rugipleuris Dasch, 1964. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 3: 262. 6,9. 



Subfamily OXYTORINAE 



The subfamily Oxytorinae (= Micro leptinae) includes a number of genera about which so little 

 is known that their phylectic relationships with other ichneumonid genera are particularly in 

 doubt. Hence, their position in the classification of the family is somewhat a matter of specula- 

 tion. Oxytorus and Microleptes are two of these genera of doubtful affinities. Of the 24 genera 

 of Oxytorinae recognized by Townes (1971), 19 have Nearctic species. Species of some genera 

 have been reared from Mycetophilidae, but for most of the genera no hosts are known. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1971. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 17: 179-206 (genera of world). 



Genus MICROLEPTES Gravenhorst ^ 



Microleptes Gravenhorst, 1829. Ichn. Europaea, v. 1, p. 679. 



Type-species: Microleptes splendidulus Gravenhorst. Monotypic. 

 Miomeris Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Reinlande, Verb. 25: 171. 



Type-species: Miomeris aquisgranensis Foerster. Monotypically included and desig. 

 by Foerster, 1871. 

 Mionomeris Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., p. 94. Emend. 

 Gnathoniella Schmiedeknecht, 1924. Ent. Monthly Mag. 60: 47. 



Type-species: Gnathoniella egregia Schmiedeknecht. Monotypic. 

 Microcleptes Walkley, 1967. In Krombein et ai, U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2, Sup. 2, p. 

 180. Unjustified emend. Mr. George Steyskal is of the opinion (personal commun., 1976) 

 that Hopper (1959) was correct in asserting that Gravenhorst's name Microleptes was a 

 lapsus in light of the Latin definition (meaning stealer of little things) which 

 Gravenhorst gave for the Greek words from which he derived Microleptes. However, 

 Steyskal feels that it is not provable that Gravenhorst's Greek word which 

 transliterates as leptes was a lapsus for cleptes rather than lestes (the latter meaning 

 the same thing). Therefore, the ichneumonid name Microcleptes must be treated as an 

 unjustified emendation and, therefore, does not date from Gravenhorst (1829) and is 

 preoccupied by Newman, 1840; Stal, 1866; and Simpson, 1928, instead of preoccupying 

 them. 



