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Superfamily PROCTOTRUPOIDEA 



By Carl F. W. Muesebeck 



This is a large and diverse group of parasitic Hymenoptera, but the North American 

 proctotrupoid fauna has had little critical study with the result that apparently most of our spe- 

 cies remain undescribed. The only comprehensive treatments of the North American Proctotru- 

 poidea are that by Ashmead, in 1893, and that included by Kieffer in his monograph of the world 

 fauna, which comprises three volumes that were published between 1914 and 1926. Kieffer used 

 the name Serphoidea, based on Serphus Schrank, 1780, for this superfamily and that usage was 

 followed generally in the literature of the next thirty years; but Serphus Schrank was set aside 

 by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in 1946 (Opinion 178), under 

 suspension of the Rules, and its synonym Proctotnipes Latreille, 1796, with P. brevipennis 

 Latreille as type-species, was added to the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as Name 

 No. 616. As a result of that action the name Proctotrupoidea has come into general use again. 



I am indebted to Dr. Lubomir Masner, Biosytematics Research Institute, Canada Department 

 of Agriculture, for much helpful advice and for new records, in connection with the preparation 

 of this section of the Catalog. 



Revision: Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 5-472 (the Bethylidae and Dryinidae were 

 included). -Kieffer, 1907-1914. In Andre, Spec. Hym. Eur. Alg., v. 10, pp. 1-1014 and v. 11, 

 pp. 1-447. -Kieffer, 1914-1926. Das Tierreich, Lief. 42 (1914), pp. VI-XVII, 1-254; Lief. 44 

 (1916), pp. VI-XXX, 1-627; Lief. 48 (1926), pp. VII-XXXVI, 1-885. 



Taxonomy: Ashmead, 1887. Ent. Amer. 3: 73-76, 97-100, 117-119. —Harrington, 1899. Roy. 

 Soc. Canada, Trans. (2) 5: 117-206. -Ashmead, 1902-1903. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 10: 240-247 

 (1902); 11: 28-35 and 86-99 (1903). — Mani, 1941. Cat. Indian Ins., part 26, pp. 1-60. 

 — Risbec, 1950. Trav. Lab. d'Ent. du Sect. Soudanais de Recherches Agron., v. 2, pp. 

 511-637. -Muesebeck and Walkley, 1956. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 105: 319-419 (Types of the 

 genera and subgenera). —Masner, 1965. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bui., Ent, Sup. 1, pp. 3-154. 

 —Masner, 1965. Psyche 72: 295-304. —Masner and Muesebeck, 1968. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 

 270: 1-143. -Masner, 1969. Nat. Canad. 96: 775-784. -Kozlov, 1970. Ent. Obozr. 49: 

 203-226 (English transl.: Ent. Rev. 49: 115-127). —Kozlov, 1971. Soc. Ent. Unionis Sovet., 

 Horae 54: 7-67. 



Biology: Clausen, 1962. Entomophagous Insects, pp. 239-270. 



Morphology: Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. Misc. Collect. 99 (14): 38-41. — Reid, 1941. Roy. Ent. 

 Soc. London, Trans. 91: 428-430. — Pschorn-Walcher, 1955. Schweiz. Ent. Gesell., Mitt. 28: 

 214-219. 



