700 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Genus RHYNCHOPHION Enderlein 



Rhynchophion Enderlein, 1912. Zool. Anz. 39: 630. 



Type-species: Rhynchophion odontandroplax Enderlein. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



This is a small Neotropic and Nearctic genus. 



flammipennis (Ashmead). Southeastern Ariz.; Mexico, Nicaragua, Ecuador. 



Thyreodon flammipennis Ashmead, 1894. Calif. Acad. Sci., Proc. (2) 4: 125. 9. 



Genus THYREODON Brulle 



Thyreodon Brulle, 1846. In Lepeletier, Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., v. 4, p. 150. 

 Type-species: Thyreodon cyaneus Brulle. Desig. by Hooker, 1912. 

 Athyreodon Ashmead, 1900. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 23: 87. 



Type-species: Athyreodon thoracicus Ashmead. Monotypic and orig. desig. The 

 type-species is regarded as a synonym of T. atriventris atriventris (Cresson). 

 Tipulophion Kriechbaumer, 1901. Ztschr. System. Hym. Dipt. 1: 75. 



Type-species: Tipulophion gigas Kriechbaumer. Monotypic. The type-species is 

 regarded as a subspecies of T. atriventris (Cresson). 

 Macrophion Szepligeti, 1905. In Wytsman, Gen. Ins., fasc. 34, p. 32. 



Type-species: Macrophion omatiis Szepligeti. Desig. by Viereck, 1912. The 

 type-species is regarded as a synonym of T. atriventris atriveyitris (Cresson). 

 Oleter Shestakov, 1926. Konowia 5: 259. 



Type-species: Oleter selenaction Shestakov. Monotypic and orig. desig. The 

 type-species is regarded as a synonym of T. laticinctus Cresson. 



This is a large genus of Neotropic and Nearctic distribution, the majority of the species being 

 Neotropic. 



atricolor atricolor (Olivier). Que. w. to s. Man., s. to Fla. and e. Tex. Host: Lapara 

 coniferanim (J. E. S.), L. bornbycoides Wlk., Paonias excaecatus (J. E. S.). 

 Ophion atricolor Olivier, 1812 (1811). In Olivier and Latreille, Encycl. Meth., Diet. Ins., v. 



8, p. 511. 9. 

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

 287. cJ, 9. Validated as a "new name" for "T. morio Authors, not Fabricius." Viereck 

 gave a few descriptive remarks, gave data for two specimens he had seen from Conn., 

 and referred to the figure of Howard (1902). The specimen in the U. S. National 

 Museum upon which Howard's figure is based is here selected as lectotype; it is a 

 female collected at Nyack, N. Y. by J. L. Zabriskie in 1883. 



Taxonomy: Howard, 1902. The Insect Book, pi. 10, fig. 15. 

 atricolor flavicornis (Say). Kans., Colo., N. Mex., s.e. Idaho, Utah, Ariz. 



Anomalon flavicomis Say, 1823. West. Quart. Rptr. 2: 73. Sex not indicated. 



Thyreodon snowi Viereck, 1905. Kans. Acad. Sci., Trans. 19: 313. 9. 



Thyreodon morio transitionalis Viereck, 1906. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 32: 225. 9. 

 fernaldi Hooker. Colo., Ariz.; n. Mexico. 



Thyreodon femaldi Hooker, 1912. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 38: 131. 6,9. 

 ornatipennis Cresson. N. Mex.; n. Mexico. 



Thyreodon ornatipennis Cresson, 1874 (1873). Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 25: 376. 9. 



Genus SIMOPHION Cushman 



Simophion Cushman, 1947. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 96: 446. 



Type-species: Simophion excarinatus Cushman. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



A single species is known to the author. Cushman said he had seen four undescribed species, 

 and it is likely that at least some of them were only color variants of excarinatns. It is ap- 

 parently not known if the Palearctic species S. calvus Viktorov and S. victorovi Malyavin really 

 belong in Simophion. 



excarinatus Cushman. Southwestern Tex., s. N. Mex., s. Ariz., s.e. Calif. 



Simophion excarinatus Cushman, 1947. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 96: 447. 9. 



