788 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Genus HALTICOPTERA Spinola 



Halticoptera Spinola, 1811. Paris Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Ann. 17: 148. 



Type-species: Diplolepis flavicomis Spinola. Desig. by Ashmead, 1904. 

 Pachylarthrus Westwood, 1832. London, Edinb. and Dublin Phil. Mag. and Jour. Sci. (3) 1: 

 127. 



Type-species: Pachylarthrus insignis Westwood. Monotypic. 

 Phagonia Curtis, 1832. Brit. Ent., v. 9, folio 427. 



Type-species: Diplolepis flavicorHis Spinola. Orig. desig. 

 Dicycius Walker, 1833. Ent. Mag. 1: 371, 455. 



Type-species: Dicycius aeneus Walker. Desig. by Westwood, 1840. 

 Phacostomus Nees, 1834. Hym. Ichn. Aff. Monogr., v. 2, p. 121. 



Type-species: Diplolepis patellana Dalman. Monotypic. 

 Megorismus Walker, 1846. List Hym. Brit. Mus., Chalcid., v. 1, p. 29. 



Type-species: Miscogaster daiphron Walker. Monotypic. 

 Tityros Walker, 1848. List Hym. Brit. Mus., Chalcid., v. 2, pp. 108, 164. 



Type-species: Tityros poreia Walker. Monotypic. 

 Megalorismus Schulz, 1906. Spolia Hym., v. 147. Emend, of Megorismus. 



Taxonomy: Graham, 1969. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent., Bui. Sup. 16: 155-159 (syn.; key to 

 European spp.). 



brodiei Ashmead. Ont. Ecology: Emerged from twig or leaf midrib galls of Xanthoteras 

 quercusforticonie (Walsh). This sp. may not be Halticoptera; types not located. 



Halticoptera brodiei Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 14: 192. 9. 

 circulus (Walker). Que. and Maine, s. to Fla., w. to B. C, Wash., Oreg., Calif.; Mexico, Europe. 

 Host: Agromyza parviconiis Loew, Cerodontha dorsalis (Loev/), Liriomyza vielampyga 

 (Loew), L. langei Frick, L. pictella (Thoms.), Mayetiola destructor (Say), 

 Melanagroviyza virens (Loew), Meromyza americana Fitch, Oscinella sp., O.frit (L.), 

 Phytobia angulata (Loew), P. clara (Melander), P. lateralis (Macq.), Phytomyza 

 delphiniae Frost. This species has used the name aenea (Walker) or patellana (Dalman) 

 in all North American literature since 1933. 



Dicycius circulus Walker, 1833. Ent. Mag. 1: 456. 9. 



Dicycius fuscicomis Walker, 1833. Ent. Mag. 1: 456. 9. 



Pteromaius palpigerus Zetterstedt, 1838. Ins. Lap. Descr., Hym., p. 425. 



Pteromalus brevicoruis Zetterstedt, 1838. Ins. Lap. Descr., Hym., p. 426. Preocc. by 

 Walker, 1835. 



Miscogaster Daiphron Walker, 1839. Monog. Chalcid., v. 1, p. 198. 9. 



Miscogaster Crius Walker, 1839. Monog. Chalcid., v. 1, p. 201. 9. 



Miscogaster Suilius Walker, 1839. Monog. Chalcid., v. 1, p. 202. "9" = S. 



Cyrtogasfer liqueatus Ashmead, 1894. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 21: 336. 6. 



Cyrtogaster occidentalis Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 23: 230. 9,6. 



Cyrtogaster citripes Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 23: 230. 6. 



PolycyrtusC.) floridanus Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 23: 230. 6. 



Pteromalus lapponicus Dalla Torre, 1898. Cat. Hym., v. 5, p. 131. N. name for brevicomis 

 Zetterstedt. 



Polycystus foersteri Crawford, 1913. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc 45: 313. 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Gahan, 1934 (1933). U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc Pub. 174: 116 (aeiiea). — Ferriere, 

 1952. Soc. Venez. Stor. Nat., Bol. 6: 172 (patellana). —Graham, 1969. Brit. Mus (Nat. 

 Hist.) Ent., Bui. Sup. 16: 163-164 (syn.; circulus). 



Biology: Lange, 1944. Jour. Econ. Ent. 37: 394-395. —Hills and Taylor, 1951. Jour. Econ. Ent. 

 44: 760-762. -Morrill and Kieckhefer, 1971. Jour. Econ. Ent. 64: 1129-1131. 

 good! Crawford. N. S., Que., Wash. 



Halticoptera goodi Crawford, 1915. Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus 3: 107. 9,6. 

 rosae Burks. Maine, Ont., R. I., Wis., Minn., Sask., Utah, Alaska. Host: Rhagoletis basiola (0. 

 S.). 

 Halticoptera rosae Burks. 1955. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 57: 81. 9, 6. 



Biology: Balduf, 1959. 111. Biol. Monog. 26: 41-50, 170-173. 



