1496 Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico 



hidalgo boreoorientalis (Bequaert). East Coast states, Ohio, Mo., eastern Kans. Ecology: 

 Nests in borings in wood. Prey: Homoeosoma electellum (Hist.). 

 Odynenis hidalgo var. boreo-orientalis Bequaert, 1937. Pan-Pacific Ent. 12: 11. d, 9. 



Biology: Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 77-79 (nest, prey, life history). 

 hidalgo hidalgo (Saussure). U. S. east to Miss., north to Mo., Kans., Colo., Calif.; Mexico. 



Ecology: Nests in abandoned bee burrows in a cliff, in a Sceliphron mud nest, and in an 

 old Polistes nest. Prey: Caterpillars. 

 Odynerus {Odynerus) Hidalgo Saussure, 1857. Rev. Mag. Zool. (2) 9: 275. 

 Odynems ductus Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 238. 6,9. 

 Odynenis Hidalgi Saussure, 1875. Smithsn. Inst., Misc. Collect. 254: 252. 6,9. Emend. 



Biology: Isely, 1914. Kans. Univ. Sci. Bui. (2) 8: 296-299 (nest, prey). —Bequaert, 1939. Ent. 



Soc. Amer., Ann. 32: 68-69 (nest). — Rau, 1943. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 36: 533 (nest). 



— Linsley, 1962. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 55: 154 (sleeping habits). 

 hidalgo viereckii (Cameron). Calif., Nev., Utah, Idaho, Wash., Colo. Ecology: Nests in old 

 Sceliphron mud nests, dividing each cell transversely in two. 



Odynenis viereckii Cameron, 1909. Pomona Col. Jour. Ent. 1: 127. 9. 



Odynenis hidalgo var. boreo-occidentalis Bequaert, 1937. Pan-Pacific Ent. 12: 13. 6 , 9 . 

 leucomelas leucomelas (Saussure). North, and west. U. S. and Canada south to mountains of 

 Tenn., N. Mex., Ariz. Ecology: Nests in cavities in sumac twigs. Parasite: Aynobia 

 distoria (Allen); Chrysis coenilans ¥., C. nitidula F. ?. Prey: Sarrothiripus sp., Palthis 

 angidalis (Hbn.); Rheumaptera hastata L. ?; Framinghamia helvalis (Wlkr.), 

 Tetralopha spp., Acrobasis spp., Dioryctria reniculella Grt., D. spp.; Pterophoridae sp.; 

 Olethreutidae sp.; Badebecia iirticana Hbn., Exartema spp., Griselda radicana Walsh, 

 Rhopobota naevana geminana Steph., Pseiidexentera spp., Sparganothis reticulatana 

 Clem., S. sp., Platynota sp., Pandemis spp., Archips argyrospilus Wlkr., A. spp., C. 

 rosaceana Harr., C.fumiferana (Clem.), C. pinus Free., Argyrotaenia veiutinana Wlkr. 

 ?, Acleris variana Fern., A. logiana placidana Rob., A. sp.; Recurvaria spp., Eucordylea 

 spp., Trichotaphe levisella Fyles ?, T. spp., Gelechiidae spp. 



Odynenis (Odynenis) Leucomelas Saussure, 1855. Etudes sur la famille des Vespides, v. 3, 

 p. 255. 6, 9. 



Biology: Medler, 1964. Ent. News 75: 26-27 (nest, life history, parasite). — Fye, 1965. Canad. 

 Ent. 97: 718-722 (nest, prey, life history, parasites). 

 leucomelas oregonensis (Bohart). Wash., Oreg., Nev., Utah, Wyo. 



Rygchium foraminatum oregonense Bohart, 1948. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 43: 82. 6, 9. 



macswaini (Bohart), n. comb. Calif, in Transit. Zone. 



Rygchium macswaini Bohart, 1948. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 43: 80. 6 , 9. 

 martini (Bohart), n. comb. Tex., Colo., N. Mex., Ariz., Utah. 



Odynenis martini Bohart, 1942. Pan-Pacific Ent. 18: 149. 6,9. 

 megaera (Lepeletier). East, and south. U. S. north to N. Y., 111., Pa., west to eastern Tex., Okla. 

 Ecology: Nests in borings in wood. Parasite: Toxophora amphitea Wlkr., Anthrax 

 aterrimus (Big.); Chrysis coenilans F., C. inaequidens Dahlb. Prey: Archips sp., 

 Platynota sp., Tortricidae spp.; Desmia funeralis (Hbn.), Framinghamia helvalis 

 (Wlkr.), Tetralopha sp., Epipaschiinae sp., Nephopteryx nyssaecolella (Dyar), N. uvinella 

 (Rag.), Phycitinae sp.; Psilocorsis sp.; Olethreutidae sp.; Palthis a^igulalis Hbn. 

 Odynerus megaera Lepeletier, 1841. Hist. Nat. Ins. Hym., v. 2, p. 636. 9. 



Biology: Krombein, 1955. Ent. Soc. Wash., Proc. 57: 146-147 (nest, prey, life history). 

 —Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 70-74, pi. 9, fig. 40, pi. 26, figs. 123, 

 124 (nest, prey, life history, parasites). 

 oslarensis (Cameron). Calif., Ariz. Ecology: Nests in borings in Sambncus stems and wood. 

 Prey: Phycitinae sp.; Gelechiidae sp.; Cosmopterygidae sp. 

 Odyner^is {Pachyodenms (.')) oslarensis Cameron, 1908. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 34: 199. 

 9. 



Biology: Parker and Bohart, 1966. Pan-Pacific Ent. 42: 93 (nest). —Krombein, 1967. 

 Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 84-85 (nest, life history, prey). 



