Superfamily PROCTOTRUPOIDEA 1145 



modestus (Brues). Pa. (Lehigh Gap). 



Loxotropa modenla Brues, 1905. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bui. 3, 188. 9. 

 nanus (Ashmead). Fla. 



Loxotropa ncnia Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 413, 415. 9. 

 nigrescens (Fouts). Sasit., B. C. 



Loxotropa nigrescens Fouts, 1927. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc 27: 169. 9. 

 pegomyiae (Brues). Minn. Host: Hyleniya brassicae (Bouche). 



Loxotroixi pegomyiae Brues, 1907. Extr. from Rpt. Minn. State Ent., p. 1. 9, 6. 

 pusillus (Ashmead). D. C, Va. 



Ceratopria pusilla Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 429, 430. 9. 

 utahensis Ashmead. Utah (Canyon City). 



Basalys utahensis Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 443, 444. 6. 



Genus IDIOTYPA Foerster 



Idiot y pa Foerster, 1856. Hym. Stud., v. 2, pp. 122, 125. No species. —Marshall, 1873. Cat. 

 Brit. Hym.; O.xyura, p. 11. Two species. 



Type-species: Diapria (Mionopria) inaritima Haliday. Desig. by Ashmead, 1893. 

 Mionopria Haliday, 1857. Nat. Hist. Rev., v. 4, p. 172. Proposed as a subgenus of Diapria 

 Latreille. 



Type-species: Diapria (.Mionopria) niaritima Haliday. Monotypic. 

 pallipes Fouts. N. Y. (McLean). 



Idiot y pa pallipes Fouts, 1925. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 27: 102. 9. 



Genus TRICHOPRIA Ashmead 



Trichopria Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 407, 431. 



Type-species: Trichopria pentaplasta Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Phaenopria Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 407, 436. 



Type-species: Phaenopria unnutissi)na Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 Planopria Kieffer, 1908. Soc. Hist. Nat. Metz, Bui. 25: 19. 



Type-species: Diapria califor)iica Ashmead. Desig. by Muesebeck and Walkley, 

 1951. 

 Orthopria Kieffer, 1911. In Andre, Spec. Hym. Eur. Alg., v. 10, pp. 983, 984. 



Type-species: Diapria californica Ashmead. Desig. by Muesebeck and Walkley, 

 1951. 

 Ashweadopria Kieffer, 1912 (1911). In Wytsman, Gen. Ins., fasc. 124, pp. 8, 10, 59. 



Type-species: Diapria certicillata Latreille. Desig. by Mani, 1941. 

 Rhopalopria Kieffer, 1912 (1911). In Wytsman, Gen. Ins., fasc. 124, pp. 8, 61. 



Type-species: Rhopalopria rnlgaris Kieffer. Monotypic. 

 Neodiapria Kieffer, 1916. Das Tierreich, Lief. 44, pp. xxi, 346. 



Type-species: Tropidopria erynniae Kieffer. Monotypic. 



Apparently the species of this genus are very numerous, most of them still undescribed. They 

 are parasites of Diptera, including members of the families Tephritidae, Tachinidae, Syrphidae, 

 Ephydridae, Stratiomyidae, Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, Drosophilidae, Glossinidae, Tabanidae, 

 Chloropidae, Agromyzidae and Sciomyzidae. 



Revision: Kieffer, 1916. Das Tierreich, Lief. 44, pp. 52-65 and 77-146. 



Taxonomy: Mani, 1941. Cat. Indian Ins., pt. 26, pp. 44-47. — Sundholm, 1960. Opusc. Ent. 25: 

 218-222. — Masner, 1964. Acta Soc. Ent. Cechoslov. 61: 136. — Masner, 1965. Brit. Mus. 

 (Nat. Hist), Bui., Ent., Sup. 1, p. 40. 



Biology: Cros, 1935. Soc. d'Hist. Nat. de I'Afrique du Nord, Bui. 26: 131-136. 



abdominalis Fouts. N. J. (Riverton). 



Trichopria (Trichopria) abdominalis Fouts, 1926. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 28: 174. 9. 



acutiventris (Brues). Tex. (near Austin). Ecology: In nest q{ Labidus coccus (Latreille). 

 Phaenopria acutiventris Brues, 1902. Amer. Nat. 36: 372. 9. 



