650 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



This very large genus is known from all zoogeographic regions. The genus is rather difficult 

 taxonomically, and there are no usable works treating the species of any large country or other 

 major geographic area. Most of the species occur in unforested habitats and many of them 

 parasitize Noctuidae; a species exceptional to both generalizations is C. pyralidis Walley. 



Taxonomy: Walley, 1927. Canad. Ent. 59: 227-231 (key to spp. in Canadian National 

 Collection). 



apicata (Viereck). Ont. 



Sagaritis apicata Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 200 (key); 58 (5): 128. 9. In the 



1926 portion of Viereck's revision as S. apicatus. 

 aprilis (Viereck). Conn., N. Y., N. J., n. Mich., w. Ont., S. Dak., s. B. C, w. Wash. Host: Polia 



purpurissata (Grt), Xylomyges dolosa Grt., Enargia decolor (Wlk.). 

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



263. 6. 

 Sagaritis bigelowi Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 198 (key); 58 (2): 33. 9 

 Sagaritis citrinus Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 200 (key); 58 (5): 123. 9. 

 argentifrons (Cresson). Que. w. to s. B. C, s. to Va., Mo., s. Tex., Colo., and n. Calif. Host: 



Agrotis ipsilon (Hufn.), Anicla infecta (Ochs.), Lacinipolia renigera (Steph.), Crambus 



mutabilis Clem., C. zeelus Fern. 

 Mesoleptus dubitatus Cresson, 1864. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 3: 259. 9. Formerly preocc. in 



Limnerium by Holmgren, 1860. 

 Mesoleptus argentifrons Cresson, 1864. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 3: 261. 6. 

 Mesoleptus vicinus Cresson, 1864. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 3: 268. 9 . 

 Livinerium provancheri Dalla Torre, 1901. Cat. Hym., v. 3, p. 102. N. name for M. 



dubitatus Cresson. 

 Sesioplex heliaeformis Viereck, 1925. Canad. Ent. 57 (7): 177 (key); 57 (12): 298. 9. 

 Sagaritis strigosus Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 199 (key); 58 (3): 73. S, 9. 

 Sagaritis evansi Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 199 (key); 58 (3): 74. 9. 

 Sagaritis englishi Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 199 (key); 58 (3): 75; 58 (5): 129. 



9 . On p. 129 in the 1926 part of his revision Viereck made a correction to his 1925 key 



which makes it uncertain that the lectotype he selected in 1926 (p. 75) applies to the 



name validated in the 1925 key. 

 Sagaritis conspicuosus Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 200 (key); 58(5): 123. 6. 

 Sagaritis interruptus Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 200 (key); 58 (5): 127, 129. 6. 



The lectotype selected (in effect) by Viereck in 1926 (p. 127) does not apply with 



certainty to the name validated in the 1925 key because of errors in the latter which 



were corrected in 1926 (p. 129). 

 atkinsoni (Viereck). Southeastern Man., s. Sask., s. Alta., n. Idaho, e. Wash., w. Oreg. 



Sagaritis atkinsoni Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 199 (key); 58 (2): 38; 58 (5): 



129. 

 Sagaritis teulonensis Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57(8): 200 (key); 58 (5): 124, 129. 6, 



9 . The lectotype selected (in effect) by Viereck in 1926 (P. 124) does not apply with 



certainty to the name validated in the 1925 key because of errors in the latter which 



were corrected in 1926 (p. 129). 



Biology: King and Atkinson, 1928. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 21: 173-174, 185. 



atypicus (Viereck). Que., Ont., s. Alta. 



Sagaritis atypicus Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (8): 198 (key); 58 (2): 36. 9. 



Sesioplex canadensis Cushman, 1930 (1929). U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 76 (25): 8. 6, 9- 

 australis (Viereck). Southern Sask., Wyo., and N. Mex., w. to s. B. C. and w. Oreg. Host: 

 Euxoa ochrogaster (Gn.). 



Limnerium australis Viereck, 1903. hi Skinner, Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 29: 91. 9. 

 banksi (Viereck). Northern Va. 



Campolex banksi Viereck, 1921. Psyche 28: 72. 9. 



californica (Holmgren). Calif. 



Sagaritis californica Holmgren, 1869 (1868). Eug. Resa, pt. 2 (Zool.), sect. 1 (Ins.), p. 418. 

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Taxonomy: Townes, 1961. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 63: 112 (note on type specimen). 



