638 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Type-species: Campoplex decipiens Gravenhorst. Monotypic. The type-species is 

 regarded as a synonym of Casinaria cantator (De Geer). 

 Zacharops Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 42: 646. 



Type-species: Charops amiulipes Ashmead. Monotypic and orig. desig. 

 Gongropelma Enderlein, 1921. Stettin. Ent. Ztg. 83: 13. 



Type-species: Gongropelma formosanum Enderlein. Orig. desig. The type-species is 

 regarded as a synonym of C. bicolor (Szepligeti). 



Most of the species in this fairly large genus occur in the tropics, and there is only a single 

 Nearctic species. The cocoons of at least some of the species are suspended from foliage by a 

 thread of silk. The hosts are various lepidopterous larvae which do not conceal themselves when 

 feeding. 



Revision: Gupta and Sharda Maheshwary, 1971 (1970). Oriental Insects 4: 453-480 (Indian 

 spp.). 

 annulipes Ashmead. Que. s. to n. Fla., w. to n.e. Kans. and e. Tex. 



Charops anmdipes Ashmead, 1890 (1889). U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 12: 414. S. 



Genus DUSONA Cameron 



Dusoyia Cameron, 1901 (1900). New Zeal. Inst., Trans, and Proc. 33: 107. 



Type-species: Dusona straynmeipes Cameron. Monotypic. 

 Delopia Cameron, 1903. Ztschr. System. Hym. Dipt. 3 (5): 304. 



Type-species: Delopia cariniscutis Cameron. By subsequent monotypy from 

 inclusion by Cameron, 1903 (3 [6]: 337-338 of same jour.). 

 Anisitsia Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 42: 632. Preocc. by Eigenmann, 1903. 



Type-species: Campoplex villosiis Norton. Orig. desig. 

 Campoplegidea Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 42: 644. 



Type-species: Campoplex oxyacanthae Boie. Monotypic and orig. desig. 

 Pseudocasmaria Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 42: 644. 



Type-species: Casi7iaria americana Ashmead. Monotypic and orig. desig. 

 Thyynarimorpha Viereck, 1913. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 46: 384. 



Type-species: Thymarimorpha platygastra Viereck. Monotypic and orig. desig. The 

 type-species is regarded as a synonym of D. gnara (Cresson). 

 Viereckiana Strand, 1914. Arch. f. Naturgesch. (A) 80 (1): 163. N. name for Ayiisitsia 



Viereck. 

 Zachrestinus Enderlein, 1921. Stettin. Ent. Ztg. 82: 38. 



Type-species: Zachrestinus fractocristatus Enderlein. Monotypic and orig. desig. 

 Idiosomidea Viereck, 1925. Roy. Soc. Canada, Proc. and Trans. (3) 19 (5): 271. 



Type-species: Campoplex photomorphus Viereck. Orig. desig. 

 Neodelopia Benoit, 1957. Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Mem. (E) 8: 314. 



Type-species: Neodelopia pauliani Benoit. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



This very large genus is known from all zoogeographic regions. The hosts are larvae of 

 macrolepidoptera which feed on trees and shrubs and do not conceal themselves while feeding. 

 More rearings in North America have been from Geometridae than from Lepidoptera of other 

 families. 



Revision: Walley, 1940. Sci. Agr. 20: 647-734. 



Taxonomy: Townes and Townes, 1951. hi Muesebeck et a/., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2: 

 370 (syn.). —Townes, Momoi, and Townes, 1965. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 5: 285-286 (syn.). 

 alia (Norton). Mass. The holotype is lost and no revisor has yet decided what name should be 

 suppressed as a synonym of alia. 

 Campoplex alius Norton, 1863. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 1: 367. 9. 

 americana (Ashmead). Mass. w. to s. B. C, s. to Ala., n.e. Tex., and Colo. 

 Casinaria americana Ashmead, 1890. Colo. Biol. Assoc. Bui. 1: 22. 9. 

 Campoplegidea (Viereckiana) erythromera Viereck, 1926. Roy. Soc. Canada, Proc. and 

 Trans. (3) 20 (5): 177. 9. 



