Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 875 



Leucaspis Burmeister, 1835. Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1 (2): 47. Emend. 



Leucopsis Turton, 1802. In Linnaeus Syst. Nat. 3: 503 (error, frequently repeated; 



Leucopsis Berthold, 1827, Recognized as valid in Aves). 

 Leucospis subg. Metallopsis Westwood, 1839. Ztschr. f. Ent. 1: 264. 



Type-species: Leucospis (Metallopsis) eayennensis Westwood. Monotypic. 

 Exocklaenus Shipp, 1894. Ent. Monthly Mag. 30: 245. 



Type-species: Leucospis anthidioides Westwood. Orig. desig. 

 Parexoclaenus Girault, 1915. Queensland Mus., Mem. 4: 355. 



Type-species: Parexoclaenus vespoides Girault. Orig. desig. 

 Exoclaenoides Girault, 1915. Queensland Mus., Mem. 4: 356. 



Type-species: Exoclaenoides unicinctus Girault. Orig. desig. 



afflnis affinis Say. Widespread in Canada and the U. S. except for S. Fla. and the extreme 

 southwestern Sonoran zone. Host: Antliidium emarginatum (Say), A. maculosuw 

 Cress., Asluneadiella meliloti aridnia Ckll., Diantliidiuyn pudicuin consiviile (Ashm.), 

 Hoplitis producta (Cress.), Megachile sp., M. brevis Say, M. gentilis Cress., M. inennis 

 Prov., M. ntontivaga Cress., M. relativa Cress., Osniia atriventris Cress., 0. kincaidii 

 Ckll., 0. puniila Cress., 0. siniillinia Smith, Stelis sp., S. sexvtaculata Ashm. There is 

 an undescribed subspecies of affinis in the southwestern Sonoran region. 



Leucospis affinis Say, 1824. In Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., App. p. 327. 9,6. 



Leucospis subnotata Westwood, 1834. Ent. Mag. 2: 215. 9. 



Leucospis fratenia Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 269. 9, 6. 



Leucospis basalis Westwood, 1839. Ztschr. f. Ent. 1: 264. 6, 9. 



Leucospis Canadensis Walker, 1860. Jour. Ent. 1: 17. S. 



Taxonomy: Burks, 1975. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent., Bui. 32 (4): 166. 

 Leucospis bicincta Viereck, 1906. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 32: 227. S. 



Biology: Graenicher, 1906. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 4: 153-159. -Medler, 1958. Ent. News 

 69: 21-24. -Medler and Koerber, 1958. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 51: 340-344. —Medler, 1958. 

 Canad. Ent. 90: 326-327. -Medler, 1964. Canad. Ent. 96: 920. -Johansen and Eves, 1966. 

 Wash. Agr. Expt. Sta., Cir. 469: 5. —Parker and Bohart, 1966. Pan-Pacific Ent. 42: 95-97. 

 —Medler, 1967. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 60: 342. — Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and 

 bees, pp. 434-436. —Medler and Lussenhop, 1968. Wis. Coll. Agr., Res. Bui. 274: 20-47. 



Morphology: Snodgrass, 1910. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 39: 65, figs. 35-39 (thorax). —Burks, 

 1938. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 31: 158, fig. 5 (wing venation). —Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. 

 Misc. Collect. 99: 36-37 (male genitalia). —Bradley, 1955. Soc. Roy. d'Ent. de Belg., Mem. 

 27: 134, fig. 6 (wing venation). 

 affinis floridana Cresson. Cent, and S. Fla. Host: Chalicodoma (Chelostomoides) sp., C. (C.) 

 georgica Cress., Megachile (Sayapis) sp. 

 Leucospis affinis war. floridana Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 33. 9, 6. 



Taxonomy: Weld, 1922. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 61 (6): 10, 26. 



Biology: Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 436-437. 

 birkmani Brues. Fla., Tex., Ariz.; Mexico. 



Leucospis birkmaiii Brues, 1925. Psyche 32: 23. 9. 

 robertsoni Crawford. Fla., Ala. 



Leucospis wbertsotii Crawford, 1909. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 11: 51. 9, 6. 

 slossonae Weld. Ga., Fla., Ala. Host: Anthidielluni sp. 



Leucospis slossonae Weld, 1922. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 61 (6): 11. 9, 6. 



texana Cresson. N. C, Ga., Tex. 



Leucospis texana Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 31, 191. 6 . 



Family EUCHARITIDAE 



By B. D. Burks 



All members of this family are parasitic on ants. They are, like most parasites of ants, highly 

 modified in structure. Ashmead, 1904 (Carnegie Mus., Mem. 1: 267) characterizes them as being, 



