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reduvii (Howard). Md., s. to Fla., w. to Kans., Tex.; West Indies, Cent, and North. South Amer. 

 Host: Microcentriim sp.; Acrosternuni liilare (Say), Anasa tristis (Deg.), Arilus 

 cristatus (L.), Tetyra bipunctata (H.-S.); Anisota senatoria (S. and A.), Estigmene acrea 

 (Drury), Telea polijphenius (Cramer). 

 Eupelnius reduvii Howard, 1880. Canad. Ent. 12: 207. 6,9. 



Revision: Waterston, 1923. Bui. Ent. Res. 14: 104-108. 



Biology: Underhill, 1934. Va. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bui. 294: 17-18. — Cleare and Squire, 1934. Agr. 

 Jour. Brit. Guiana 5: 189. — Breland, 1941. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 34: 110. 

 ruficollis (Cameron). Calif. Host: Microcentnun rhovibifoliuni (Sauss.), Scudderia furcata 

 Brunner. In much California literature this sp. is treated under the name vtirabilis. 

 Braneina ruficolli.s Cameron, 1905. Invertebrata Pacifica 1: 125. 9. 

 Anastatus rugosicollis Crawford, 1913. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 46: 347. 



Taxonomy: Essig, 1926. Insects of West. No. Amer., p. 843. 



Biology: Issac, 1905. Calif. State Comn. Hort., Bien. Rpt. 1: 102 (mirabilis). —Essig, 1913. 

 Calif. State Comn. Hort, Monthly Bui. 2: 22, 274 (mirabilis). 



semiflavidus Gahan. Kans., Tex., N. Mex., Ariz., Calif. Host: Hemileuca nevadensis Stretch, H. 

 oliviae Ckll. 

 AnaHtaim >iemiflavidus Gahan, 1914. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 48: 160. 9, cJ. 



Biology: Caffrey, 1921. Jour. Agr. Res. 21: 373-384. -Wildermuth and Frankenfeld, 1933. 



Jour. Econ. Ent. 26: 794-798. -Frankenfeld and Barnes, 1933. Jour. Econ. Ent. 26: 799-805. 



—Barnes and Frankenfeld, 1935. Jour. Econ. Ent. 28: 917-924. —Barnes, 1944. Jour. Econ. 



Ent. 37: 544-545. -Clausen, 1956. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 1139: 50. 

 tenuipes Bolivar and Pieltain. Md., s. to Fla., w. to 111., Kans., Tex., Ariz.; Cosmopolitan. 

 Ecology: Well established in buildings infested with brownbanded roaches, and 

 competing successfully with Co»iperia luerceti (Comp.), an encyrtid parasite of the same 

 roach. An adventive species, often intercepted at ports of entry, following its host into 

 North America; first established in Arizona in 1939, widespread in Gulf Coast by 1940. 

 Host: Supella iiitpellectiliu»i (Serv.). 



Anastatus tenuipes Bolivar y Pieltain, 1925. Soc. Roy. Ent. Egypte, Bui. 9: 43. 9. 



Anastatus blattidaruvi Ferriere, 1930. Bui. Ent. Res. 21: 33. 9. 



Soliiidenia blattiphagus Mani, 1936. Indian Mus., Rec. 38: 131. 6, 9. 



Taxonomy: Roth and Willis, 1960. Smithsn. Inst., Misc. Coll. 141: 246. —Burks, 1967. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc, Trans. 93: 430. 



Biology: Pruthi and Mani, 1940. India Imp. Council Agr. Res., Misc. Bui. 30: 12. —Flock, 

 1941. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 36: 1-4. — Tinkham, 1948. Amer. Midland Nat. 40: 557. 

 -Weber, 1951. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc. 14: 223. —Roth and Willis, 1960. Smithsn. Inst. 

 Misc. Coll. 141: 246-247. 

 zeli (Ashmead). Fla. Host: Zeius longipes (L.). 



Eupehnus zeli Ashmead, 1886. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 13: 130. 9. 



Taxonomy: Burks, 1967. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 93: 431. 



Genus PHLEBOPENES Perty 



Phlebopenes Perty, 1833. Delect. Anim. Articul. Brasil, fasc. 3, p. 132. 



Type-species: Phlebopenes splendidus Perty. Monotypic. 

 Prionopelnia Westwood, 1835. Zool. Soc. London, Proc. 3: 51. 



Type-species: Prionopelnia viridis Westwood. Monotypic. 



Revision: Roman, 1920. Arkiv for Zool. 12: 24-30. 



Taxonomy: Burks, 1964. Ent. News 75: 1-2. -De Santis, 1967. Comision Invest. Cient. Prov. 

 Buenos Aires, Notas 4(8): 3 (Argentine sp.). 

 hetricki Burks. Md., Ga., Fla. 



Phlebopenes hetricki Burks, 1964. Ent. News 75: 2-5. 9. 



