Superfamily SPHECOIDEA 1575 

 Subfamily AMPULICINAE 



Genus AMPULEX Jurine 



Ampuledc Jurine, 1807. Nouv. Meth. Class. Hym. Dipt., p. 132. 



Type-species: Sphex coiupressus Fabricius. Desig. by Audouin, 1822. 

 Proyioeus Latreille, 1809. Gen. Crust. Ins., v. 4, p. 56. 



Type-species: Dryinus aeneus Fabricius. Monotypic. 

 Lorrheum Leach, 1837. In Shuckard, Essay on Indig. Fossor. Hym., p. 18. A manuscript 

 name of Leach, validated by Shuckard. 



Type-species: Sphex compresstis Fabricius. Desig. by Shuckard, 1837. 

 Rhinopsis Westwood, 1844. Arcana Ent., v. 2, p. 68. 



Type-species: Rhiywpsis Abbottii Westwood. Monotypic. 

 Waageyiia Kriechbaumer, 1874. Stettin Ent. Ztg. 35: 55. 



Type-species: Waageiiia sikki7nensis Kriechbaumer. Monotypic. 

 Chlorampulex Saussure, 1892. In Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Madagascar, v. 20, p. 441. 



Type-species: Sphex covipressus Fabricius. Desig. by Pate, 1937. 



canaliculata Say. Mass. to Ga., Ohio, Wis., Mo., Kans. Ecology: Nests in cavities in twigs and 

 in borings in wood. Prey: Parcoblatta virgiiiica (Brunner), P. sp., Ischnoptera sp. 

 Ampulex canalicnlatus Say, 1823. West. Quart. Rptr. 2: 76. 

 Rhinopsis Abbottii Westwood, 1844. Arcana Ent., v. 2, p. 68, pi. 65, fig. 5. 9. 

 Ampulex pensylvanica Haldeman, 1849. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 4: 203. 

 Rhinopsis ynelanognathus Rohwer, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 41: 464. "9"= 6. 



Taxonomy: Schulz, 1911. Zool. Ann. 4: 149-152. —Bradley, 1934. Ent. News 45: 32-33. 

 —Evans, 1959. Ent. News 70: 57-58, 6 figs, (larva). 



Biology: Williams, 1929. Hawaii. Ent. Soc, Proc. 7: 318-329, 10 figs, (nest, prey, life history). 

 — Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 173-175, figs. 49-51 (nest, prey, life 

 history). 



Morphology: Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. Inst., Misc. Collect. 99 (14): 50, pi. 22, figs. A-D (male 

 genitalia). 

 ferruginea Bradley. Fla., Tex. 



Ampulex {Rhinopsis) ferruginea Bradley, 1934. Ent. News 45: 274. i. 



Taxonomy: Strandtmann, 1943. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 36: 46-48. 9. 



Family SPHECIDAE 



Collectively, the members of this family are known as thread-waisted wasps because of the 

 slender, elongate abdominal petiole. Most North American species are moderately large wasps, 

 many of them with conspicuous coloration. The nesting habits are quite varied: The majority of 

 species are digger or sand wasps, excavating their nests in soil; others utilize pre-existing cavi- 

 ties or borings in wood, or abandoned mud-dauber cells; a few are mud-daubers. The prey is also 

 quite varied and includes spiders, cockroaches, crickets, grasshoppers, katydids and larvae of 

 Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Normally, the species of a genus or higher category prey upon 

 species of only one of the foregoing groups. 



Taxonomy: Evans and Lin, 1956. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 81: 131-153, 73 figs, (larvae). 

 — Evans, 1959. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 85: 147-149, figs. 31-35 (larvae). — Bohart and 

 Menke, 1963. Univ. Calif. Pubs. Ent. 30: 91-182, 115 figs, (reclassification). —Evans, 1964. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 90: 237-245, pis. 8-9 (larvae). —Menke, 1965. Tijdschr. v. Ent. 108: 

 205-217, 8 figs. (syn. of some New World spp.). 



Subfamily SCELIPHRONINAE 



Revision: Bohart and Menke, 1963. Univ. Calif. Pubs. Ent. 30: 99-117 (Nearctic spp.). 



Genus CHLORION Latreille 



Chlorion Latreille, 1802. Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., v. 3, p. 333. 

 Type-species: Sphex lobata Fabricius. Monotypic. 



