Superfamily CHALCIDOIDEA 1017 



lithocolletidis (Ashmead). Maine, Conn., Va., N. C, Ind., 111., Kans. Host: Anthonomus 

 nigrinus Boh.; Argyresthia thuiella (Pack.), Cameraria guttifinitella (Clem.), 

 Lithocolletis sp.; Phytobia jucunda (Wulp), Phytomyza ilicis Curt. 

 Entedon lithocolletidis Ashmead, 1888. Kans. Agr. Expt. Sta., Bui. 3: App. p. VIII. 9, J. 



Biology: Fitzgerald and Simeone, 1971. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 64: 770-773. 

 lonchaeae Burks. Maine, Ont., N. H., Mass., N. Y., N. J., Pa. Ecology: Parasitizes fly larvae 

 (prob. Lonchaea corticis Taylor) that invade burrows of the weevil Pissodes strobi 

 (Peck), in terminal growth of white pine. Host: Lonchaea sp. 

 Pediobiics lonchaeae Burks, 1966. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 68: 37. 9, cJ. 

 longfellowi (Girault). Maine, Pa. Host: Cameraria aceriella (Clem.), Lithocolletis sp. 



Epipleurotropis longfellowi Girault, 1917. Descr. Hym. Chalcidoid. Variorum cum Observ. 

 Ill, p. 7. 9. 

 longus (Girault). Ind. Ecology: Reared from canary grass, Phalaris sp., that also yielded 

 Hannolita longiconiis (Walker). 

 Pleurotropis longus Girault, 1916. Canad. Ent. 48: 342. 9. 

 metallicus (Nees). Most areas in North America where wheat is grown; Europe. Introduced 

 for biological control into the Midwest and Maryland, from England, in 1891-1894. Host: 

 Mayetiola destructor (Say). 

 Eulophus metallicxis Nees, 1834. Hym. Ichn. Affin. Monog., v. 2, p. 176. 9, d. 

 Entedon Epigonus Walker, 1839. Monog. Chalcid., v. 1, p. 112. 9, 6. 

 Semiotellus nigripes Lindeman, 1887. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc, Bui. (2) 1: 179, 185, 192. 



Taxonomy: Walker, 1848. List Hym. Ins. Brit. Mus., v. 2, p. 136. —Forbes, 1892. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Insect Life 5: 72. -Gahan, 1934 (1933). U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 174: 132 

 (metallicus). — Ferriere, 1953. Univ. Bologna, 1st. di Ent., Bol. 19: 400. —Graham, 1959. 

 Soc. Brit. Ent., Trans. 13: 191. — Boucek, 1965. Mus. Natl. Pragae, Acta Ent. 36: 65 

 (epigonus). 



Biology: Riley, 1892. U. S. Dept. Agr., Ann. Rpt. for 1891, p. 235. -Riley, 1893. U. S. Dept. 



Agr., Ann. Rpt. for 1892, p. 158. —Riley, 1893. U. S. Dept. Agr., Insect Life 6: 133. 



-Osborn, 1898. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent. Bui. 16: 28, 38-41. —Howard and Fiske, 1911. 



U. S. Dept. Agr., Bur. Ent. Bui. 91: 30. -McConnell, 1916. Jour. Econ. Ent. 9: 145. -Wade 



and Myers, 1921. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 23: 202. —Howard, 1924. Natl. Acad. Sci., Proc. 10: 



18. -Gahan, 1934 (1933). U. S. Dept. Agr., Misc. Pub. 174: 132. —Hill et al., 1939. U. S. 



Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 689: 4-15. -Hill and Pinckney, 1940. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 



715: 9-13. -Clausen, 1956. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 1139: 123. 

 nawai (Ashmead). Ont., New England; Europe, Japan. Introduced inadvertently from Europe, 

 along with parasites of the gypsy moth, before 1920. Host: Apanteles inelanoscelus 

 (Ratz.), Dibrachys cavus (Walk.), Eupteromalus peregrinus Graham; Compsilura 

 concinnata (Meig.). 



Derostenus nawai Ashmead, 1904. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 12: 160. 9, cJ. 



Biology: Muesebeck and Dohanian, 1927. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bui. 1487: 12, 31-32. -Proper, 

 1934. Jour. Agr. Res. 48: 362-375. -Haeussler, 1940. U. S. Dept. Agr., Tech. Bui. 728: 33. 

 -Arthur, 1962. Canad. Ent. 941: 1087. 



niger (Ashmead). Ill, Fla. 



Closterocerus niger Ashmead, 1896. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 23: 232. 6. 

 nigritarsis (Thomson). Que., Ont., s. to Va., w. to Alta. and S. Dak. Introduced for biological 



control from Europe in 1935, but it was already here as an apparently different species. 

 Host: Mayetiola destructor (Say); Cephus ciiictus Nort., C. pygmaeus (L.), Trachelus 

 tabidtis (F.). 

 Pleurotropis nigritarsis Thomson, 1878. Hym. Scand., v. 5, p. 251. 9, 6. 

 Pleurotropis benefica Gahan, 1921. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 23: 117. 9, S. 



Taxonomy: Gahan, 1932. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 25: 751. -Gahan, 1934 (1933). U. S. Dept. 

 Agr., Misc Pub. 174: 131. —von Rosen, 1956. K. Lantbrukshog, Ann. 23: 19. —Graham, 

 1959. Soc Brit. Ent., Trans. 13: 190. 



