Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 761 



smithi (Schread). Conn. Host: Caryomyia sp. gall. 



Locbites smithi Schread, 1937. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 32: 102. 9,6. 



Genus MONODONTOMERUS Wcstwood 



Monodontomerus Westwood, 1833. London, Edinb. and Dublin Phil. Mag. and Jour. (3) 2: 

 443. 



Type-species: Monodontomerus obscunis Westwood. Monotypic. 

 Paroligosthenus Cameron, 1913 (1912). Indian Forest Rec. 4: 94. 



Type-species: Paroligosthenus trichioptbalmus Cameron. Monotypic. 



Revision: Gahan, 1941. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 90: 461-482 (Nearctic spp.). — Steffan, 1952. 



Paris Mus. d' Hist. Nat., Bui. 24: 288-290 (Europe, N. Africa). — Nikol'skaya, 1952. Chalcid 



fauna of the U. S. S. R. 44: 137-140 (Palaearctic. Eng. transl. 1963). 

 aereus Walker. N. B. ?, New England; India; Holarctic. Host: Archips argyrospilus (Walk.), 



Malacosoma americanum (F.), Nygmia phaeorrhoea (Donov.), Orgyia lencostigma (J. E. 

 Smith), Porthetria dispar (L.); Blepharipa scutellata (R. D.), Carcelia laxifro7is VilL, 

 Compsilnra concinnata (Meig.), Exorista larvaruni (L.), Toivnsendiellomyia nidicola 

 (Tns.); Apanteles lacteicolor Vier., A. melayioscelus (Ratz.), Iseropus coelebs (Walsh), 

 Meteorus versicolor (V/esm.), Phobocompe unicincta (Grav.). 



Monodontomerus aereus Walker, 1834. Ent. Mag. 2: 158. 9. 



Taxonomy: Muesebeck, 1931. Jour. Agr. Res. 43: 445-460. 



Biology: Howard and Fiske, 1911. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 91: 86-308. —Muesebeck 

 and Dohanian, 1927. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bui. 1487: 19-20. —Burgess and Grossman, 1929. U. 

 S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 86: 77-80. -Proper, 1934. Jour. Agr. Res. 48: 361-376. —Clausen, 

 1956. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 1139: 114-116. -Wilbert, 1960. Entomophaga 5: 203. 

 -Blunck and Wilbert, 1962. Ztschr. f. Angew. Ent. 50: 203. 

 bakeri Gahan. Colo. 



Monodontomerus bakeri Gahan, 1941. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 90: 475. 9. 

 dementi Grissell. Wyo. Host: Dianthidium heterulkei Schwarz. 



Monodontomerus dementi Grissell, 1973. Pan-Pacific Ent. 49: 235. 9, 6. 

 dentipes (Dalman). Que., Maine, Conn., Ont., N. Y., N. J., Pa., Ohio, Mich., Wis., Idaho.; 

 Holarctic. Host: Orgyia pseudotsugata (McD.); Tachinidae; Diprion similis (Htg.), 

 Gilpinia hercyniae (Htg.), Rogas unicolor (Wesm.). 

 Torymus dentipes Dalman, 1820. Svenska Vetensk. Akad., Handl. 41: 173, 178. 6, 9. 

 Monodontomerus viridaeneus Provancher, 1881. Nat. Canad. 12: 290. 9. 



Taxonomy: Finlayson, 1960. Canad. Ent. 92: 37, 39, 44 (immature stages). 



Biology: Morris, Cameron, and Jepson, 1937. Bui. Ent. Res. 28: 377-380, 389, 391. —Finlayson 

 and Finlayson, 1958. Canad. Ent. 90: 558-559. — Drooz and Fedde, 1972. Environ. Ent. 1: 

 522-523. 



Morphology: Bucher, 1948. Canad. Jour. Res. 26D: 230-281. 

 dianthidii Gahan. Calif. Host: Dianthidium sp. 



Monodontomerus dianthidii Gahan, 1941. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 90: 464. 9, i. 



emarginatus Gahan. Colo. Host: Megachile? sp. 



Monodontomerus emarginatus Gahan, 1941. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 90: 476. 9. 

 indiscretus Gahan. Maine. Host: Heterarthrus nemoratus (Fall.). 



Monodontomerus indiscretus Gahan, 1941. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 90: 469. 9. 

 mandibularis Gahan. N. Y., D. C, Ohio, III, Mo., La. Host: Anthophora abnipta Say, A. 

 bomboides Kirby, Melitoma taurea (Say), Osmia cordata Robt. 



Monodontomerus mandibularis Gahan, 1941. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 90: 474. 9, <J. 



Biology: Rau, 1947. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 40: 221-226. 

 mexicanus Gahan. Ind., Calif.; Mexico. Host: Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) mexicanum Sauss., 

 Parancistrocerus vagus (Sauss.), Ancyloscelis armata Smith. 

 Monodontomerus mexicanus Gahan, 1941. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 90: 468. 9, i. 



Biology: Torchio, 1974. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 47: 58. 



