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nigra Latreille. N. Y., N. J., Md., Va., N. C, S. C, Ohio, Mich., Ill, Miss, Nebr., Tex., Colo., 



Calif.; Cosmopolitan. Host: Haematobia irriians (L.), Hylemya antique (Meig.), Musca 

 domestica L., Rhagoletis completa Cress., Stomoxys calcitrans (L.). 



Spalangia nigra Latreille 1805. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., v. 13, p. 288. 



Spalangia hirta Haliday, 1833. Ent. Mag. 1: 334. 9. 



Spalangia rugosicollis Ashmead, 1894. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 3: 36. 9. 



Spalaiigia muscae Howard, 1911. The House Fly, p. 90. Inadvertently descr.; attrib. to 

 Girault. 



Taxonomy: Boucek, 1963. Mus. Natl. Pragae., Acta Ent. 35: 443 (syn.). —Burks, 1969. 

 Smithsn. Contrib. Zool. 2: 5 (types in USNM). 



Biology: Parker and Thompson, 1928. Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. 97: 437-439. — Legner, 1969. 

 Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 62: 220-226. 



Morphology: Parker, 1924. Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. 93: 310-311 (larva). 

 nigripes Curtis. N. Y., HI., Ark., Colo.; Cosmopolitan. Host: Fannia leucosticta (Meig.), F. 

 scalaris (F.), Lucilia sp.; Musca domestica L. 

 Spalangia nigripes Curtis, 1839. Brit. Ent., v. 16, fol. 740. 9. 

 Spalangia hyaloptera Foerster, 1850. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 7: 509. 9, S. 

 Spalangia form icaria Kieffer, 1905. Berlin. Ent. Ztschr. 50: 1. 9. 

 Spala7igia 7nuscaru7n Girault, 1920. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 58: 213. 9. 



Taxonomy: Boucek, 1963. Mus. Natl. Pragae, Acta Ent. 35: 461 (syn.). 

 nigroaenea Curtis. N. B. and Ont., s. to Va., w. to B. C. and Calif.; Cosmopolitan. Host: Fannia 

 sp., Musca domestica L., Muscina sp., Ophyra sp., Stomoxys calcitrans (L.). 

 Spalangia nigroaenea Curtis, 1839. Brit. Ent., v. 16, fol. 740. i. 

 Spalangia homalaspis Foerster, 1850. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 7: 505. 9,6. 

 Spalangia astuta Foerster, 1851. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verb. 8: 1. 9. 

 Spalangia muscidarum Richardson, 1913. Psyche 20: 38. 9, 6. 



Spalangia siindaica Graham, 1932. In Handschin, Austral. Council Sci. and Indus. Res., 

 Pam. 31: 22, 24. 9,6. 



Taxonomy: Boucek, 1963. Mus. Natl. Pragae, Acta Ent. 35: 448 (syn.). —Graham, 1969. Brit. 

 Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent., Bui. Sup. 16: 52 (syn.). 



Biology: Pinkus, 1913. Psyche 20: 148-158 (muscidarum). —Richardson, 1913. Jour. Morpb. 

 24: 513-549 (nmscidanini). —Roberts, 1935. Jour. Agr. Res. 50: 493 (muscidarum). 

 —Legner et al., 1967. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 60: 462-468. —Legner and Olton, 1968. Ent. 

 Soc. Amer., Ann. 61: 1306-1314. 



Morphology: Burks, 1938. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 31: 161 (muscidarum, forewing). 



Subfamily CEROCEPHALINAE 

 Revision: Gahan, 1946. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 96: 349-376. 

 Taxonomy: Hedqvist, 1969. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 71: 449-466 (key to genera). 



Genus CHOETOSPILA Westwood 



Choetospila Westwood, 1874. Thesaurus Ent. Oxon., p. 137, pi. 25. 



Type-species: Choetospila elegans Westwood. Monotypic. 

 Chaetospila Dalla Torre, 1898. Cat. Hym., v. 5, p. 207. Emend. 

 Spalaiigiomorpha Girault, 1913. Queensland Mus., Mem. 2: 333. 



Type-species: Spalangiotfwrpha fasciatipennis Girault. Orig. desig. 

 elegans Westwood. Que., s. to Fla., w. to B. C, s. to Calif.; Cosmopolitan. Host: Callosobruchus 

 chinensis (L.), C. inaculatus (F.), Caulophilus oryzae (Gyll.), Lasioderma serricome (F.), 

 Rhyzopertha dominica (¥.), Sitophilus granarius (L.), S. linearis (Herbst), S. oryzae 

 (L.), Stegobium paniceum (L.). This is one of the commonest chalcidoids in the entire 

 world; it has both winged and wingless forms, often mixed in the same lot. 

 Choetospila elegans Westwood, 1874. Thesaurus Ent. Oxon., p. 137. 9. 

 Spala7igio7norpha fasciatipennis Girault, 1913. Queensland Mus., Mem. 2: 333. 9. 

 Spala7igia 7uetallica Fullaway, 1913. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc. 2: 286. 9. 



