1304 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



M lit ilia gerijon Fox, 1899. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 25: 255. i. 



Mutilla Henshawi Melander, 1903. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 29: 303. i. 



Mutilla daeckei Rohwer, 1910. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 12: 49. 6. 



Pseudomefhoca swiillinia Mickel, 1924. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 64 (15): 32. 9 (6 misdet.). 



Taxonomy: Krombein, 1948. Ent. News 59: 187-189. 



Biology: Shappirio, 1947. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 42: 163 (mating behavior). 



torrida Krombein. Fla. 



Pseudometlioca frigida torrida Krombein, 1954. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 80: 7, fig. 7. 9, 6. 

 toumeyi (Fox). Tex., Ariz.; Mexico (Sonora). 



Sphaerophthahna (!) toumeyi Fox, 1894. Ent. News 5: 297. 9. 



Taxonomy: Mickel, 1974. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 67: 468. i. 

 vanduzei Bradley. Va., S. C, Ga., Fla., Tex. Host: Nomia maneei Ckll. 



Pseudomethoca (Nomiaephagus) vanduzei Bradley, 1916. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 42: 321. 



6. 

 Pseudomefhoca fattigi Mickel, 1938. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 31: 147. 9. 

 Pseudomefhoca vanduzeei (!) Krombein, 1951. U. S. Dept. Agr., Monog. 2: 761. Emend. 



Biology: Fattig, 1943. Emory Univ. Mus. Bui. 1: 6 (host record). 

 wickhami (Cockerell and Casad). Tex. (Fedor). 



Sphaerophfhalvia (!) wickhami Cockerell and Casad, 1895. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 22: 297. 

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Genus MYRMILLOIDES Andre 



Myrmilloides Andre, 1903. In Wytsman, Gen. Ins., fasc. 11, p. 26. 



Type-species: Mutilla (Sphaeropfhahna) grandiceps Blake. Orig. desig. 

 grandiceps (Blake). Iowa, Nebr., Colo., Kans., Mo., Okla., Ark., Tex., La., Tenn. Host: Dialictus 

 zephyrus (Sm.)?, Augocklorella sfi'iafa (Prov.)?, A. persiinilis (Vier.)? 

 Mufilla (Sphaeropthalma) grandiceps Blake, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 74. 9, 6. 



Biology: Melander, 1903. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 29: 293 (host record). — Ordway, 1964. Kans. 

 Ent. Soc, Jour. 37: 149 (host records). 



Tribe DASYMUTILLINI 



Members of this tribe are diurnal except for a few species of Dasymutilla. 



Genus DASYMUTILLA Ashmead 



Dasymutilla Ashmead, 1899. N. Y. Ent. Soc, Jour. 7: 57. 



Type-species: Mufilla (Sphaeropthalma) Gorgon Blake. Orig. desig. 

 Bruesia Ashmead, 1903. Canad. Ent. 35: 306. 



Type-species: Mufilla harmonia Fox. Orig. desig. 

 Pycnomufilla Ashmead, 1904. Canad. Ent. 36: 8. 



Type-species: Mufilla (Sphaeropthalma) Waco Blake. Orig. desig. 



Revision: Mickel, 1928. U. S. Natl. Mus., Bui. 143: 1-351, 5 pis., 28 text figs. —Mickel, 1936. 

 Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 29: 29-60, 3 figs, (revised key to spp.). 



Taxonomy: Hurd, 1951. Calif. Ins. Survey Bui. 1: 89-118, 1 pi. (Calif, spp.) 

 Morphology: Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. Inst., Misc. Collect. 99, no. 14, p. 43, pi. 14 A-F (male 

 genitalia). 

 albiceris Mickel. Calif. (San Bernardino Co.); Mexico (Baja California). 



Dasymutilla albiceris Mickel, 1936. Pan-Pacific Ent. 12: 91. 9. 

 alesia Banks. Mass. south to Fla., west to 111. and Okla. 



Dasymutilla alesia Banks, 1921. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 14: 24. 9. 

 angulata Krombein. Mich., 111., Iowa, Mo., S. Dak., Nebr., Kans. 



Mufilla anguliceps Fox, 1899. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 25: 240. 9. Preocc by Andre, 1897. 



Dasymutilla angulata Krombein, 1951. U. S. Dept. Agr., Monog. 2: 762. N. name. 



