1510 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



Odynerus bisstrigatus Spinola, 1808. Insectorum Liguriae, v. 1, p. 180. Amer. sept. Described 



originally as bisstrigatus; location of type unknown. 

 Odynerus (?) bmdleyi Cameron, 1909. Pomona Col. Jour. Ent. 1: 81 9. Colo. (Durango). Type 



depository unknown. 

 Odynerus crotchii Cameron, 1908. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 34: 197. 6, 9. Tex. (Lee Co.). 



Lectotype in British Museum (Nat. Hist.); possibly a Leptochilus. 

 Odynerus (Odynerus) nortonianus Saussure, 1870. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) 22: 105. 9. Conn. 

 Odynerus pulchrinervis Cameron, 1906. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 32: 328. 9. N. Mex. Type 



depository unknown, the type probably lost. 

 Odynerus robustus Provancher, 1895. Nat. Canad. 22: 157. 9 . Calif. (Los Angeles). Type in 



Laval Univ., Que. 

 Odynerus scudderi Cameron, 1908. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 34: 196. 9. Southwest. U. S. Type 



depository unknown, the type probably lost. 

 Odynerus tricolor Provancher, 1895. Nat. Canad. 22: 158. 6 . Calif. (Los Angeles). Type in 



Laval Univ., Que. 



Nomina Nuda in Eumenidae 



Ancistrocerus behrensi Tucker, 1909. Kans. Acad. Sci., Trans. 22: 286. 



Leionotus scrophulariae Robertson, 1928. Flowers and Insects, p. 11. 



Leionotus ziziae Robertson, 1928. Flowers and Insects, p. 12. 



Odynerus daedalus Harris, 1835. In Hitchcock, Rpt. Geol. Mineral. Bot. Zool. Mass., p. 589. 



Family VESPIDAE 



The wasps belonging to this family are all social species, the colonies consisting of one or more 

 fertile queens, workers which are frequently numerous and usually infertile, and, at times, males 

 and new queens. 



Taxonomy: Lewis, 1897. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 24: 169-192, 1 pi. (N. Amer. spp.) — Bohart 

 and Bechtel, 1957. Calif. Ins. Survey, Bui. 4: 73-102, 8 pis., 34 figs., 7 maps (Calif, spp.). 



Biology: Rau, 1929. Canad. Ent. 61: 219-221 (cocoon spinning). —Jeanne, 1975. Quart. Rev. 

 Biol. 50: 267-287, 9 figs, (adaptiveness of nest architecture). 



Morphology: van der Vecht, 1968. K. Nederland. Akad. van Wetensch., Proc, Ser. C, 71: 

 411-422, 5 figs, (terminal gastral sternite, female, worker). 



Subfamily POLISTINAE 



These are commonly called paper wasps in North America. The nests consist of a single comb 

 which is not enclosed in a paper envelope. In most of the Temperate Zone species the nests are 

 annual, each being founded by one or more overwintering females. One of the females becomes 

 dominant and is the only one to lay eggs. 



The normal larval food consists of dismembered caterpillars. Some species of Polistes exert 

 considerable predator pressure on economically important insects such as the tobacco hornworm 

 and cotton bollworm. In an attempt to utilize the wasps as a biological control agent, shelters are 

 sometimes placed in cultivated fields to afford nesting sites to founding females. 



Taxonomy: Yoshikawa, 1962. Jour. Biol. 13: 19-43, 1 map (list of world spp., distribution). 



Biology: Yoshikawa, 1962. Jour. Biol. 13: 45-64 (evolution of sociality). 



Genus POLISTES Latreille 



Polistes Latreille, 1802. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., v. 3, p. 363. 



Type-species: Vespa gallica Linnaeus. Desig. by Blanchard, 1840. 



Richard's (1973) reclassification of the subgenera of Polistes, listed below in Taxonomy, was 

 received too late to assign the North American species to subgenera in the format used el- 

 sewhere in the catalog for subgenera. Our species are assigned to the following subgenera. 



Polistes subg. Fuscopolistes Richards, 1973, pp. 95, 100 (type- species, Vespa fuscata 



