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Cymodusa plesius Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (7): 180 (key); 58 (1): 4. 9. 

 melanocera Viereck. N. H. w. to s. B. C, s. to w. N. C. and s. Idaho. 



Cymodusa melanocera Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (7): 180 (key); 58 (1): 3. 6. 



Cymodusa graciliconiis Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (7): 180 (key); 58 (1): 4. ?. 

 nigripes (Viereck). N. B., N. S. 



Neonortonia nigripes Viereck, 1925. Canad. Ent. 57 (7): 179 (key); 57 (12): 300. 6. 

 Formerly preocc. in Campoplex by Gravenhorst, 1829 and Brulle, 1846. 



Neonortonia laevissima Viereck, 1925. Canad. Ent. 57 (7): 179 (key); 57 (12): 301. 6. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1945. Amer. Ent. Soc, Mem. 11: 598 (syn. and first revisor choice of 

 names). — Walkley, 1958. In Krombein et al., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2, sup. 1, p. 59 

 {nigripes suppressed because of secondary homonymy). —Walkley, 1967. In Krombein et 

 al., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2, sup. 2, p. 201 (transfer to Cymodusa as l&evissiina). 



partis (Viereck). Que. 



Campoplex (Diadegma) partis Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (9): 227 (key); 58 (11): 

 280. 6. 



provancheri Viereck. N. S. 



Cymodusa provancheri Viereck, 1925; 1926. Canad. Ent. 57 (7): 180 (key); 58 (1): 4. 9. In 

 1926 (p. 4) Viereck, in effect, selected a lectotype for provancheri and, at the same 

 place, wrote: "{Limneria) Cymodusa provancheri new name = Cymodusa distincta 

 Provancher, not Cresson." Walkley (1958) treated provancheri as a replacement name 

 for Limneria distincta Provancher, and Barron (1975) concurred with Walkley, stating 

 that "Viereck's designation of a holotype for provancheri is disallowed (Int. Code Zool. 

 Nom. art. 72 (d))." Article 72 (d), however, has no bearing on this case because Viereck 

 did not originally (i.e. 1925, p. 180) propose provancheri expressly as a replacement for 

 any prior name. Moreover, my knowledge of Viereck's idiosyncrasies leads me to believe 

 that he most likely proposed the name provancheri for what he thought to be 

 Provancher's misidentification of distincta (Cresson). Viereck frequently used the term 

 "new name" in that context. Although Viereck was very inconsistent, I regard it as 

 unlikely that he would have regarded a specimen that Provancher never saw as being 

 the holotype if he had intended the name provancheri to be a replacement name (cf. 

 Viereck's proposal of the replacement name Ameloctonus taeniopus). Also see 

 discussion under Campoletis distincta (Provancher). 



Taxonomy: Walkley, 1958. hi Krombein et al., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2, sup. 1, p. 59, 

 60. —Barron, 1975. Nat. Canad. 102: 462. 



Genus CYMODUSOPSIS Viereck 



Cymodusopsis Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 43: 588. 



Type-species: C ymodusopsis aristoteliae Viereck. Monotypic and orig. desig. 



This is a small Neotropic and Nearctic genus. 



aristoteliae Viereck. N. J., Mo., S. Dak., n.e. Kans. Host: Aristotelia pudibundella (Zell.). 

 Cyynodusopsis aristoteliae Viereck, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 43: 588. 6,9. 



Genus SPUDASTICA Foerster 



Spudastica Foerster, 1868. Naturh. Ver. Rheinlande, Verh. 25: 155. 



Type-species: Spudastica petiolaris Thomson. By-subsequent monotypy from 

 inclusion by Thomson, 1887. The type-species is regarded as a synonym of 

 kriechbaumeri (Bridgman). 



Townes (1970) indicated that this Holarctic genus appears to be represented by one species 

 which has a number of geographic variants. However, there appear to be at least two distinct 

 species in North America. I have seen specimens from Mass., N. J., Md., and Va. which appear to 

 represent an undescribed species which apparently occurs in swampy areas. S. kriechbaumeri 

 has been reared from species of the noctuid genus Orthosia. 



Taxonomy: Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 13: 169. 



