Superfamily SPHECOIDEA 1643 



clarkei Krombein. Mass. to Fla., Tenn., Ill, Mo., Tex. Ecology: Nests in trap-nests, stores 4-6 

 prey per cell. Prey: Mangora gibberosa Hentz. 

 Trypoxylon (Trypoxylon) clarkei Krombein, 1962. Biol. Soc. Wash., Proc. 75: 9. cJ, 9. 



Biology: Krombein, 1967 Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 229-230 (nest, prey, life cycle). 

 fastigium Fox. D. C, Ga., Miss., Tex., Okla., Mo., Ark., Kans., Nebr., Idaho, Utah, Nev., Ariz., 



Calif. Parasite: Trichrysis doriae (Grib.). 

 Trypoxylon carinifrons Fox, 1891. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 18: 142. 9,6. Preocc. 

 Trypoxylon fastigunn Fox, 1894 (1893). Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 45: 476. N. name. 

 Trypoxylon subfrigidum Rohwer, 1909. Ent. News 20: 378. 6. 

 Trypoxylon nigrellum Rohwer, 1909. Ent. News 20: 379. 9. 

 figulus figulus (Linnaeus). Que., Maine, N. H., Mass.; Europe. Ecology: In Europe it nests in 



hollow stems or beetle borings and preys mostly upon Araneidae. Possibly adventive in 



North America. Parasite: Perithous divinator (Rossi). Other subspp. occur in the 



Palaearctic Region. 

 Sphex figulus Linnaeus, 1758. Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 570. 

 Spliex fitliginom Scopoli, 1763. Ent. Carn., p. 292. 



Trypoxylon figulnm var. major Kohl, 1883. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., Mitt. 6: 657. S. 

 Trypoxylon apicalis Fox, 1891. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 18: 142, fig. 10. 9. 

 Trypoxylon figulnm var. minor de Beaumont, 1945. Schweiz. Ent. Ges., Mitt. 19: 478. 9, 



6. 



Taxonomy: Giordani Soika, 1934. Soc. Ent. France, Ann. 103: 342-343, pi. 3, fig. 2 (larva). 



—Pate, 1943. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 38: 46 (synonymy of apicale). 

 frigidum frigidum Smith. Hudson Bay south to N. C, west to Wash, and N. Mex. Ecology: 

 Nests in hollow stems and twigs, in abandoned beetle borings in dead wood and 

 structural timber, and in trap-nests, stores 4-16 prey per cell. Parasite: Pyemotes 

 ventricosus (Newp.); Megaselia sp.; Anthrax sp.; Amobia distorta (Allen); Melittobia 

 chalybii Ashm.; Cleonymidae sp., possibly Ptinobius ynagnificus (Ashm.); Trichrysis 

 doriae (Grib.). Prey: Achaearanea globosa (Hentz), Thymoites unimaculata 

 unimaculata (Em.), Theridion albidum Bks., T. differens Em., T.frondeum Hentz ?, T. 

 globosum Hentz, T. lyra Hentz, T. murariutn Em., T. sp. in Murarium Group, T. 

 unimaculatum Em.; Salticidae sp.; Eustala anastera (Walck.), E. sp., Araneidae spp.; 

 Tennesseellum formicum (Em.); Leucauge venusta (Walck.), Tetragnatka sp.; 

 Ceratiiiopsis interpres Camb., C. purpurescens Keys., Micryphantidae sp.; both adults 

 and immatures are stored and most are snare-building species. Other subspp. occur in 

 the Palaearctic Region. 



Trypoxylon frigidum Smith, 1856. Cat. Hym. Brit Mus., v. 4, p. 381. 9. 



Trypoxylon plesium Rohwer, 1920. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 57: 229. 9. 



Taxonomy: Evans, 1957. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 83: 96, figs. 59-60 (larva). 



Biology: Packard, 1867. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 6: 415 (nest). — Rau, 1922. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 

 Trans. 24: 22. — Blackman and Stage, 1924. N. Y. State Col. Forestry, Syracuse Univ., 

 Tech. Pub. 17: 197 (nest). —Rau, 1926. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 25: 197 (nest). —Rau, 

 1928. Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans. 25: 439-441, figs. 65, 66 (nest, parasites). —Taylor, 1928. 

 Psyche 35: 225 (nest). —Pate, 1937. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 22: 5 (nest). —Thomas, 1962. 

 Amer. Midland Nat. 67: 365 (nest, parasite). —Thomas, 1963. Mich. Acad. Sci., Arts, 

 Letters, Papers 48: 127-130 (nest, life cycle, parasite). —Parker and Bohart, 1966. 

 Pan-Pacific Ent. 42: 95 (nest). —Krombein, 1967. Trap-nesting wasps and bees, pp. 223-227, 

 fig. 11 (nest, prey, life cycle, parasites). — Medler, 1967. Amer. Midland Nat. 78: 344-358 

 (nest, prey, cocoon, parasites, life cycle). 



Morphology: Snodgrass, 1941. Smithsn. Inst., Misc. Collect. 99 (14): pi. 21, figs. M-P (male 

 genitalia). 

 johnsoni Fox. Ont., N. Y. to Fla. west to Mich., Mo., Okla., Tex. Ecology: Nests in hollow 

 stems or borings in wood, and possibly in pre-existing burrows in earth. Prey: 

 Tetragnatha spp.; Micrathena gracilis (Walck.), Ararieus sp.?; prey consisted of 

 immatures and penultimate stages of both sexes. 

 Trypoxylon Johnsoni Fox, 1891. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 18: 147. 9. 

 Trypoxylon omatipes Fox, 1891. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 18: 148. 6. 



