1150 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Type-species: Loxotwpa )iieUea Ashmead. Orig. desig. 

 mellea (Ashmead). Fla., Ala. Ecology: In nests of Ecito)i spp. 

 Loxotwpa nielk'u Ashmead, 1887. Canad. Ent. 19: 196. S. 



Taxonomy: Masner, 1964. Acta Soc. Ent. Cechoslov. 61: 132-133. Redescription, with first 

 description of female. 



Biology: Wing, 1951. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, Trans. 102: 207. 



Unplaced Taxa of Diapriidae 



PsiliiH ah<lo)iii)iali.s Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 283. Ind. 



Psiliix (tpicalis Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 283. Ind. 



Psilns hrericorxis Say, 1824. I)t Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., v. 2, p. 328. Ind. 



P.s(7((.s- colon Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 284. Ind. 



Psilus obfusiis Say, 1828. Contrib. Maclur. Lye. Phila. 1: 280. Ind. 



Psilua teniiittatits Say, 1836. Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 1: 282. Ind. 



Family SCELIONIDAE 



So far as known all species of this family are parasitic in the eggs of other insects or in the 

 egg sacs of spiders. 



Revision: Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 136-247 (Nearctic fauna). -Kieffer, 1908. 

 Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 32: 111-251. -Kieffer, 1912-1913. In Andre, Spec. Hym. Eur. 

 Alg., V. 11, pp. 3-304 (pp. 3-160 pub. in 1912; pp. 161-304 in 1913). -Dodd, 1913. Roy. Soc. 

 So. Austral., Trans. 37: 130-181 (Australian fauna). —Kieffer, 1926. Das Tierreich, Lief. 48, 

 pp. 1-557 (World fauna). 



Taxonomy: Ashmead, 1903. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 11: 86-94. — Brues, 1909 (1908). In 

 Wytsman, Gen. Ins., fasc. 80, pp. 1-59. — Mani, 1941. Cat. Indian Ins., pt. 26, pp. 2-29. 

 — Kozlov, 1970. Ent. Obozr. 49: 209-219 (English transL: Ent. Rev. 49: 118-123). — Kozlov, 

 1971. Soc. Ent. Unionis Sovet., Horae 54: 33-54. 



Biology: Kieffer, 1926. Das Tierreich, Lief. 48, pp. 6-8. — Clausen, 1940. Entomophagous 

 Insects, pp. 349-357. 



Subfamily SCELIONINAE 



Revision: Ashmead, 1893. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 45: 167-247. —Kieffer, 1926. Das Tierreich, 

 Lief. 48, pp. 264-557. 



Taxonomy: Mani, 1941. Cat. Indian Ins., pt. 26, pp. 17-29. -Kodov, 1970. Ent. Obozr. 49: 

 209-214 (English transl.: Ent. Rev. 49: 118-122). — Hellen, 1^71. Fauna Fennica 23: 1-25. 



Genus SPARASION Latreille 



Spamtiio)! Latreille, 1802. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., v. 3, p. 316. 



Type-species: Spara.sio)i cepliolotes Latreille. Monotypic. 

 Ojci/unis Lamarck, 1817. Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., v. 4, p. 128. Preocc. by Rafinesque, 

 1810. 



Type-species: Sporo.s/o*; frontalis Latreille. Desig. by Muesebeck and Walkley, 

 1951. 

 Bebelus Gistel, 1848. Naturgesch. Thierr. f. hoh. Schul., p. x. N. name for Oxi/nnoi 



Lamarck. 

 Sparaison Brues, 1909 (1908). In Wytsman, Gen. Ins., fasc. 80, pp. 41, 56. Error. 



The only species for which reliable records of host association are available is parasitic in the 

 eggs of the Mormon cricket, Anabrns si))iplex Hald. The North American species have not been 

 critically studied; most material in the larger collections is unidentified. Apparently there are 

 numerous undescribed species. 



Revision: Kieffer, 1926. Das Tierreich, Lief. 48, pp. 282-299. 

 bakeri Kieffer. Colo. 



Sparasion Bakeri Kieffer, 1908. Soc. Sci. de Bruxelles, Ann. 32: 26, 27. 6. 



