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records of appeudigaster as a parasite of B. orieyitalis which have been confirmed by 

 authoritative identification of the adult parasites. Therefore, I do not feel certain that 

 such records do not in fact apply to Prosevania fuscipes (Illiger). North of a latitude of 

 approximately 37 degrees in the eastern United States appendigaster apparently ranges 

 inland only rather short distances from the Atlantic coast. Some of the names cited in 

 the synonymy below will possibly prove to be synonyms of Prosevania fiiscipes, but 

 Westwood's (1844) description of a specimen in "the Linnaean cabinet" (presumably the 

 appemUgaHtev type) seems to indicate that the name appendigaster correctly applies to 

 the present species. 



Ichneinnon appendigaster Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 566. Sex not indicated. 



Ichneumon niger Goeze, 1780. In Degeer, Des ... Degeer Abhandl. zur Gesch. des Insecten, 

 V. 3, p. 285. Sex not indicated? 



Evania laevigata Olivier, 1791. Encycl. Meth., Diet. Ins., v. 6, p. 453. 9. 



Evania iinicolor Say, 1824. //( Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., v. 2 (App.), p. 320. Sex 

 not indicated. 



Evania Ciibae Guerin-Meneville, 1834. Iconogr. Regne Anim., pi. 65, figs. 1-2. 6. For date 

 of publication see Cowan (1971, p. 28-29). 



Evania Desjardinsii Blanchard, 1840. Hist. Nat. Anim. Artie, Ins., v. 3, p. 299. 6. 



Evania affinis Le Guillou, 1841. Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. 10: 311. cJ. , 



Evania appendigastra Hedqvist, 1973. Ent. Tidskr. 94: 178. Emend. 



Taxonomy: Westwood, 1844 (1843). Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 3: 241-242. —Cowan, 1971. Soc. 

 Bibliog. Nat. Hist., Jour. 6: 18-29 (dating of E. cubae). 



Biology: Cameron, 1957. Bui. Ent. Res. 48: 199-209. —Roth and Willis, 1960. Smithsonian 

 Misc. Coll. 141: 236. 



Genus PROSEVANIA Kieffer 



Evania subg. Prosevania Kieffer, 1911. Soc. Ent. de France, Ann. 80: 157. 



Type-species: Prosevania afra Kieffer. Desig. by Viereck, 1914. Described as a 

 subgenus, but in the case of afra treated nomenclatorially as a genus. 



This is a large genus of the Old World Tropics. 



fuscipes (Illiger), n. comb. Northwestern Mass. w. to s. Ohio, s. to n.e. N. C. and Ga.; s.e. 

 Europe, n.w. Asia, n. Africa. Adventive. Host: Blatta orientalis L., Periplaneta 

 aniericana (L.). The name punctata (Brulle) has erroneously been treated as the senior 

 name for this species for many years (since 1919 in North America). The names Evania 

 fuscipes Illiger (1807) and E.flavicomis Curtis (1829) were proposed for E. 

 appendigaster Linnaeus as misidentified by Panzer (1799), Latreille (1805), and Jurine 

 (1807). There is little reason to doubt that the species identified as appendigaster by any 

 of these three authors is the present species, but Panzer's figure in particular leaves no 

 doubt whatsoever and is, therefore, here selected as lectotype for both the names E. 

 fuscipes Illiger and E.flavicomis Curtis. 



Evania fuscipes Illiger, 1807. In Rossi, Fauna Etrusca, ed. 2, v. 2, p. 83. [male]. 



Evania Jlavicornis Curtis, 1829. Brit. Ent., v. 6, pi. 257. [male]. 



Evania punctata Brulle, 1833. Exped. Sci. de Moree, v. 3, p. 378. sex not indicated. N. syn. 



Evania urbana Bradley, 1908. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 34: 140. 6, 9. N. syn. 



Taxonomy: Panzer, 1799. Faunae Ins. German., fasc. 62, pi. 12. —Latreille, 1805. Hist. Nat. 

 Crust. Ins., v. 13, p. 193. —Jurine, 1807. Nouv. Meth. Class. Hym. Dipt., v. 1, p. 85 and pi. 7, 

 fig. 6. — Bequaert, 1919. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 14: 23. 



Biology: Edmunds, 1952; 1953. Ohio Jour. Sci. 52: 29-30; 53: 121-122. —Edmunds, 1954. Ent. 

 Soc. Amer., Ann. 47: 575-592. 



Genus EVANIELLA Bradley 



Evaniella Bradley, 1905. Canad. Ent. 37: 64. 



Type-species: Evaiiia unicolor Say as misidentified by Ashmead (1901). Orig. desig. 

 According to Bradley (1908), Evaniella seniaeoda Bradley is the species which 

 Ashmead identified as unicolor. 



