Superfamily SPHECOIDEA 1691 



solani (Cockerell). N. Mex., Ariz. 



Nysson solani Cockerell, 1895. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 22: 294. 9. 

 yavapai Pate. Ariz. 



Metanysson (Metanysson) yavapai Pate, 1938. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 64: 178. 9,6. 



Subfamily GORYTINAE 



This large subfamily of ground-nesting wasps is cosmopolitan in distribution. So far as 

 recorded the species prey upon nymphal and adult Homoptera. 



Revision: Handlirsch, 1888. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Nat. Kl., Sitzber. 97: 316-565, 3 pis. (spp. 

 of world). -Fox, 1896 (1895). Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc, 47: 517-539 (N. Amer. spp.). 

 — Rohwer, 1921. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 59: 412 (key to gen.). 



Taxonomy: Maidl and Klima, 1939. Hym. Cat., Pars 8, Sphecidae 1, pp. 43-114 (world catalog). 



Genus OCHLEROPTERA Holmberg 



Ochleroptera Holmberg, 1903. Buenos Aires Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat., An. (3) 2: 487. 



Type-species: Ochleroptera oblita Holmberg. Monotypic. 

 Paramellinns Rohwer, 1912. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc. 41: 469. 



Type-species: Gorytes bipiiHctatus Say. Orig. desig. 



The species of this small genus occur only in the New World. 



Taxonomy: Pate, 1947. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, Bui. 42: 65-70. 

 bipunctata (Say). U. and L. Austr. Zones of U. S. Ecology: Nests in sandy to heavier soil, 



makes several cells per nest, stores 6-18 prey per cell. Parasite: Miltogrammini sp. Prey: 

 Aceratagatlia sangitinolenta (Prov.), Coelidia olitoria (Say), Colladonus clitellarius 

 (Say), Japananus hyalinus (Osb.), Macrosteles fascifrons Stal, M. sp., Orientus ishidae 

 Mats., Paraphlepsius irroratits (Say), Prescottia lobata (Van D.), Scaphytophis sp., 

 Strangania apicalis Osb. and Ball; Clastoptera obtusa Say, Philaenus leucophthalmus 

 L., P. lineatita L.; Cyrtolobiis acutus Van D.; Haplaxius radicis Osb.; Psylla annulata 

 F.; adults are stored more commonly than nymphs. 

 Gorytes bipunctatus Say, 1824. In Keating, Narr. Long's 2nd Exped., v. 2, p. 338. 



Taxonomy: Evans and Lin, 1956. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 82: 47, figs. 23-29 (larva). —Evans, 

 1959. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 85: 152 (larva). 



Biology: Strandtmann, 1945. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 38: 312 (nest, prey). —Evans, 1966. 

 Compar. ethology and evolution of sand wasps, pp. 75-77, fig. 42 (nest, prey transport, life 

 cycle, cocoon, parasite). —Evans, 1968. Ent. Soc. Amer., Ann. 61: 1344 (prey). 

 — Kurczewski and Kurczewski, 1971. Kans. Ent. Soc, Jour. 44: 335 (prey). 



Genus ARGOGORYTES Ashmead 



Argogorytes Ashmead, 1899. Canad. Ent. 31: 324. 



Type-species: Gorytes carbo7iarius Smith. Orig. desig. 

 Argogorytes subg. Archarpactus Pate, 1937. Amer. Ent. Soc, Mem. 9: 4, 10. 



Type-species: Sphex viystacea Linnaeus. Orig. desig. Replacement name proposed 

 unnecessarily for Arpactits Jurine which was suppressed in Op. 135, 1939, 

 Internatl. Comn. Zool. Nomencl. 



Two Palaearctic species nest in the ground, make 6-9 cells per nest, and store 19-27 nymphal 

 spittlebugs {Aphropliora) per cell. 



nigrifrons (Smith). N. S., south to Ga., Wis., Iowa, Kans., Tex. 



Gorytes nigrifrons Smith, 1856. Cat. Hym. Brit. Mus., v. 4, p. 368. 9. 



Gorytes Bollii Cresson, 1872. Amer. Ent. Soc, Trans. 4: 225. 9. 



Gorytes (Gorytes) neglect ns Rohwer, 1911. U. S. Natl. Mus., Proc 40: 567. 9. 

 sapellonis (Baker). N. Mex. (Sapello Canyon). 



Gorytes sapelloiiis Baker, 1907. Invertebrata Pacifica 1: 161. 9. 



