Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 825 



deplanata (Nees). Calif.; Europe. Ecology: Adults often swarm in buildings, congregating on 

 windows. Host: A7iarsia lineatella Zell. Other lepidopterous hosts recorded in 

 Palearctic literature. 



Pteromaius cleplanatus Nees, 1934. Hym. Ichn. Aff. Monog., v. 2, p. 110. $, 6. 



Orniocerus simplex Walker, 1834. Ent. Mag. 2: 169. cJ. 



Pteromaius doviesticus Walker, 1835. Ent. Mag. 2: 481. 9. 



Pteromaius Artemon Walker 1839. Monog. Chalcid. v. 1, p. 218. 6. 



Pteromaius Merope Walker, 1839. Monog. Chalcid., v. 1, p. 219. cJ. 



Pteromaius Phasis Walker, 1848. List Hym. Brit. Mus., Chalcid., pt. 2, pp. 123, 175. 6. 



Pteromaius Acco Walker, 1848. List Hym. Brit. Mus., Chalcid., pt. 2, pp. 124, 177. 9. 



Pteromaius Androbius Walker, 1848. List Hym. Brit. Mus., Chalcid., pt. 2, pp. 126, 200. 9. 



Cyclogastrella quercina Bukovskij, 1938. Ent.Obozr. 27: 154. 9,6. 



Taxonomy: Walker, 1845. Zoologist 3: 1142 (syn.). — Gahan, 1938. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 40: 

 226. -Graham, 1956. Ent. Monthly Mag. 92: 258. — Boucek, 1965. Mus. Natl. Pragae, Acta 

 Ent. 11: 26-27. —Graham, 1969. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent., Bui. Sup. 16: 796 (syn.). 



Biology: Scott, 1919. Ent. Monthly Mag. 55: 13-16. —Scott, 1922. Ent. Monthly Mag. 58: 

 56-60. —Gahan, 1933. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 35: 44. 



Genus EPIPTEROMALUS Ashmead 



Epipterqmalus Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 319. 



Type-species: Epipteromalus algoiiquinensis Ashmead. Orig. desig. 



Taxonomy: Kurdjumov, 1913. Ent. Obozr. 13: 4 (syn. of Trichomaius Thomson). 



algonquinensis Ashmead. 111. 



Epipteromalus algonquiyiensis Ashmead, 1904. Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 319. 9. 

 Polycystus gibbus Girault, 1920. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 212. 9. 



Taxonomy: Gahan and Peck, 1946. Wash. Acad. Sci. Jour. 36: 315 (syn.; both species 

 described from same specimens). 



Genus TRITNEPTIS Girault 



Tritneptis Girault, 1908. Psyche 15: 92. 



Type-species: Tritneptis hemerocampae Girault. Orig. desig. 



Revision: Gahan, 1938. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 40: 213-214. —Graham, 1969. Brit. Mus. (Nat. 

 Hist.) Ent., Bui. Sup. 16: 800-804 (European fauna). —Burks, 1971. Biol. Soc. Wash., Proc. 

 84: 1-6. 

 Taxonomy: Girault, 1924. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 12: 174. (syn. of Dibrachys). 

 diprionis Gahan. Que., Ont., Maine, Mass., Minn.; Europe. Host: Diprion siviilis (Htg.), 



Gilpinia frutetonim (F.), G. hercyniae (Htg.), Neodiprion lecontei (Fitch), N. pinetum 

 (Nort.) N. pratti (Dyar), N. sertifer (Four.), Pikonema alaskensis (Roh.), P. dimmockii 

 (Cress.), Pristiphora geniculata (Htg.). 

 Tritneptis diprionis Gahan, 1938. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 40: 217. 9, cJ. 



Taxonomy: Finlayson, 1963. Canad. Ent. 95: 479, 482, 483, 500 (immature stages). 

 Biology: Forbes and Daviault, 1964. Canad. Ent. 96: 1128. 

 doris Burks. Wyo., Utah. Host: Coloradia doris Barnes, Hemileuca sp. 



Tritneptis doris Burks, 1971. Biol. Soc. Wash., Proc. 84: 3. 9, cJ. 

 hemerocampae Viereck, N. S., N. B., P. E. L, Que., s. to Va., w. to B. C, Wash., Oreg., Calif. 

 Host: Argyrotaenia velutinana (Walk.), Coleophora malivorella Riley, Diacrisia 

 virginica (F.), Estigmene acrea (Dru.), Grapholitha molesta (Busck), Orgyia leucostigma 

 (J. E. Smith), Laspeyresia pomonella (L.), Papilio polyxenes asterius StoU, Platyprepia 

 guttata (Bdvl.), Stilpnotia salicis (L.). 

 Tritneptis hemerocampae Girault, 1908. Psyche 15: 90, 92. 9, <S. 

 Coelopisthia diacrisiae Crawford, 1910. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 12: 145. 9. 

 Amblymerus lipardis Viereck, 1924. Canad. Ent. 56: 69. 9, cJ. 



