Superfamily VESPOIDEA 1501 



Odynerus (Ancistrocerus) pertinax Saussure, 1855. Etudes sur la famille des Vespides, v. 



3, p. 216. 6. 

 Odynerus (Ancistrocerus) tigris Saussure, 1857. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) 9: 273. 6,9. 

 Odynerus {Ancistrocerus) cennis Saussure, 1858. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) 10: 165. 

 Odynerus monteregalis Meade-Waldo, 1914. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 14: 405. N. name 



for ca7iadaensis, a nomen nudum. 

 Odynerus canadaensis Meade-Waldo, 1914. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (8) 14: 405. 



Manuscript name credited to Cameron. Preocc. 

 Ancistrocerus howardi Cameron, 1909. Pomona Col. Jour. Ent. 1: 78. 9. 

 Ancistrocerus tenuatus Tucker, 1909. Kans. Acad. Sci., Trans. 22: 286. 9. 



Biology: Rau and Rau, 1918. Wasp Studies Afield, pp. 344-345 (nest, prey). — Champlain, 

 1922. Psyche 29: 99 (parasite). — Bequaert, 1925. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 51: 106 (nest, 

 parasite). —Bequaert, 1943. Ent. Amer. (n. s.) 23: 260 (nest). — Boyce, 1946 (1945). Ent. 

 Soc. Ontario, Ann. Rpt. 76, pp. 35-37 (nest, prey, life history). — Krombein, 1954. Brooklyn 

 Ent. Soc, Bui. 49: 2-3 (nest, prey). — Coppel, 1961. Ent. News 72: 246-248, 2 figs. (nest). 

 —Eye, 1965. Canad. Ent. 97: 731-734 (nest, prey, life history, parasite). — Medler, 1965. 

 Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 38: 314-316 (nest, prey, life history, parasite). —Krombein, 1967. 

 Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 110-115 (nest, prey, life history, parasites). —Evans, 

 1973. Great Basin Nat. 33: 152-153 (nest, prey, parasites). 

 adiabatus albolacteus Bequaert. Que. to B. C, Alaska, Wash., Oreg., Idaho, Mont, S. Dak., 



Colo., Utah. Parasite: Stylopidae sp. 

 Ancistrocerus tigris albolacteus Bequaert, 1943. Ent. Amer. (n. s.) 23: 260. 6, 9. 

 adiabatus cytainus (Cameron). Calif., Oreg., Nev., Colo, in Transition, Upper Sonoran and 



Lower Sonoran Zones. Ecology: Nests in Sambucus stems and old mud-dauber nests. 



Parasite: Chrysis coerulans F. 

 Odynerus cytainus Cameron, 1906. Invertebrata Pacifica 1: 149. 9. 



Taxonomy: Goodpasture, 1974. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 47: 364-372, figs. 1, 9 (chromosome 

 number). 



Biology: Parker and Bohart, 1966. Pan-Pacific Ent. 42: 93 (nests, parasite). 

 antilope allegrus Bequaert. Calif., Oreg., Colo. 



A7icistrocerus antilope allegrus Bequaert, 1943. Ent. Amer. (n. s.) 23: 276. 6,9. 

 antilope antilope (Panzer). Transcontinental in southern Canada and U. S. except Fla. and 

 Ala.; Holarctic, in the Old World throughout Europe and Siberia. Ecology: In North 

 America it is reported to nest in borings in wood, stems of sumac and elder, and in old 

 mud-dauber nests. Parasite: KenJiethiella trisetosa (Coor.); Amobia distorta (Allen); 

 Melittobia chalybii Ashm.; Chrysis coerulans F., C. nitidula ¥., C. spp. Prey: 

 Psilocorsis sp., Oecophoridae sp.; Anacampsis (?) sp., Gelechiidae spp.; Olethreutidae 

 sp.; Archips cerasivorana (Fitch), A. fervidana (Clem.), A. spp., Tortricidae spp.; 

 Tefralopha sp. Epipaschiinae sp., Mineola indigenella (ZelL), Salebria subcaesiella 

 (Clem.), Nephopteryx sp., Phycitinae spp., Pyralididae spp.; Epizeuxis aemula Hbn., 

 Hypeninae sp., Noctuidae spp. Only the typical subspecies of antilope occurs in the Old 

 World. 



Vespa insolens '^ Harris, 1780. Expos. Engl. Ins., p. 128, pi. 37, fig. 7. Type destroyed. 



Vespa antilope Panzer, 1798. Faunae Ins. German, h. 53, pi. IX, with letterpress. 9. Type 

 destroyed. 



Odynerus pictus Curtis, 1826. Brit. Ent., v. 3, p. 137 b, no. 2. 



Odynerus (Ancistrocerus) capra Saussure, 1857. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) 9: 273. 



Ancistrocerus nearcticus Cameron, 1906. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 32: 332. 6. 



Ancistrocerus lecontei Cameron, 1908. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 34: 218. 6,9. 



Biology: Rau and Rau, 1918. Wasp studies afield, pp. 345-346 (nest, parasite). —Taylor, 1922. 

 Psyche 29: 56-58 (nest, life history). —Rau, 1928. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 25: 405. 

 —Buckle, 1929. Canad. Ent. 51: 265-266 (erroneous prey record). — Reinhard, 1929. 

 Witchery of Wasps, pp. 86-91 (nest, parasite). —Cooper, 1953. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 79: 

 13-35 (ecology, predation, life history, parasites). —Cooper, 1955. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 

 80: 119-174, 1 pi., 6 text figs, (relations with mite, Kennethiella). —Medler and Eye, 1956. 



