Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 953 



Oobiiis is a small genus, consisting of about five species, and is Holarctic and Ethiopian in dis- 

 tribution. These insects are parasites in the eggs of buprestid beetles. An undetermined species 

 is found in Arizona and California. It has been taken from Piniis )iniricafa, Libocedrus decur- 

 rens, and reared from Melanophila califomica Van Dyke on P. ponderosa. 



Genus OOENCYRTUS Ashmead 



Ooencyrtits Ashmead 1900. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 22: 338, 345, 381. 



Type-species: Enci/rtits clisioccunpae Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Schediits Howard, 1910. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Ser. 19 (1): 2-3. 



Type-species: Schedliis kurcniae Howard. Orig. desig. 



OoencyrtuH is another cosmopolitan genus the size of which is difficult to determine. All spe- 

 cies are egg parasites of other insects. 



Ta.xonomy: Timberlake, 1923. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 25 (3): 59. -Mercet, 1925. Eos 1 (3): 

 324-328. -Ferriere, 1931. Bui. Ent. Res. 22 (2): 281-286. -Hoffer, 1963. Mus. Nat. Pragae, 

 Acta Ent. 35: 560-580. -Bakkendorf, 1965. Ent. Meddel. 30 (2): 158-159. -Trjapitzin, 1967. 

 Akad. Nauk Zool. Inst., Trudy. 41: 198-202. 



Biology: Chu, 1934. Chekiang Prov., China, Bur. Ent. Yearbook (Hangchow) 3: 169. 



— Sasamoto, 1939. Zool. Mag. (Tokyo) 51 (1): 24-33. —Phillips, 1941. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, 



Trans. 91 (5): 136-143. -Wolcott and Martorell, 1944. Puerto Rico Univ., Jour. Agr. 27 (2): 



93. -Geyer, 1947. Ent. Soc. So. Afr., Jour. 10 (1): 100-102. -Anderson and Kaya, 1974. 



Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 67 (6): 845-849. -Kaya and Anderson, 1974. Environ. Ent. 3 (3): 



659-663. 

 anabrivorus Gahan. Wyo. Host: Anabnis si)iiplex Hald. 



Ooeucyrtits anabrironis Gahan, 1942. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 92: 49-51. 6, 9. 

 anasae (Ashmead). N. C, Fla., La., Kans. Host: Solubea pugnax (F.), Anasa tristis (Deg.). 



Encyrtiis auanae Ashmead, 1887. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 14: 23-24. 9. 



Biology: Ingram, 1927. U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 1543: 4. —Douglas and Ingram, 1942. 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., Cir. 632: 6. 

 californicus Girault. Calif. Host: Anasa triHtis (Deg.). 



OenocyrtuK califor)ticus Girault, 1917. Descr. Stellarum Nov. p. 22. 9. Generic name a 

 lapsus for Ooeiicyrtus. 



Biology: Maple, 1947. Calif. Univ., Pubs., Ent. 8 (2): 104-105. 

 chrysopae Crawford. Fla. Host: Chrysopid. 



Ooencyrtuti chrysopae Crawford, 1913. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 46 : 347. 9. 

 clisiocampae (Ashmead). Cosmopolitan. Host: Malacoso)na aniericanutn {¥.), M. disstria Hbn., 

 M. fragile (Str.). 

 Encyrtus clisiocampae Ashmead, 1893. Ohio Agr. Expt. Sta., Tech. Ser., Bui. 1: 163. 9. 



Biology: Hodson, 1939. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 32 (1): 131-136. —Kaya and Anderson, 1972. 

 Environ. Ent. 1 (4): 523-524. —Anderson and Kaya, 1973. Environ. Ent. 2 (4): 705-711. 

 johnsoni (Howard). Md., Va., N. C, Fla., Tex., Calif. Host: Arilus cristatus (L.), Chlorochroa 

 sayi Stal, Murgantia lilsfrionica (Hahn), coccinellid eggs. 

 EncyrtuH Johnsoni Howard, 1898. Canad. Ent. 30: 18. i, 9. 



Biology: Drake, 1920. Fla. State Plant Bd., Quart. Bui. 1: 81. — Essig, 1922. Jour. Ent. and 

 Zool. 14 (4): 76. -White and Brannon, 1933. U. S. Dept. Agr., Farmers' Bui. 1712: 5. 

 -Maple, 1937. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 30 (1): 123-154. — Huffaker, 1941. Jour Econ. Ent. 34 

 (1): 117-118. -DeBach, 1942. Jour. Econ. Ent. 35 (5): 787. -Maple, 1947. Calif. Univ., Pubs. 

 Ent. 8 (2): 105-107. 

 kuvanae (Howard). New England. Host: Nyginia phaeorrhoea (Donov.), Porthefria dispar (L.), 



Stilp)iotia salicis (L.), Apanteles n/elanoscelns (Ratz.). 

 Schedius kuvanae Howard, 1910. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent., Tech. Bui. 19 (1): 3-5. 6, 9. 

 Ooencyrfus kuiranai Peck, 1951. /;; Muesebeck et at., U. S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Monog. 2: 496. 



Unjustified emend. 



