The Insect Lists 



This report includes the names of host plants (common names 

 wherever possible) ; localities where collections were made (except for 

 common species where the States only are listed); data on life histories 

 (monthly occurrence of larvae, pupae, and adults) ; and a list of para- 

 sites reared. 



The parasite list contains ttie names of the insect hosts from which 

 each species of parasite was reared, the locahties and/or States where 

 the hosts were collected, and the months in which the adult parasites 

 issued. General information is also given on the usual number of 

 parasites per host and, for many species, the number of generations 

 per year, and the method of hibernation. 



Two publications were used as guides to the systematic arrangement 

 for families, genera, and species of Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera: 



1. Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States. 

 Part II. Microlepidoptera. J. McDunnough. Memoirs of the South- 

 ern California Academy of Sciences, v. 2, No. 1. 1939. 



2. Hymenoptera oj America vorth of Mexico. Synoptic Catalog. C. 

 F. W. Muesebeck, Karl V. Krombein, and Henry K. Townes, and 

 others. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Monograph 

 No. 2. 1951. 



C. W. Sabrosky of the Insect Identification and Parasite Introduc- 

 tion Laboratory, Entomology Research Branch, Agricultural Research 

 Service, prepared the systematic arrangement of the genera and species 

 of Diptera mentioned in this publication. 



The following symbols have been used in this publication: (1) the 

 asterisk (*) to indicate the number of parasitized hosts, not the num- 

 ber of parasites (the latter being gregarious usually were not counted); 

 (2) the section mark (§) to indicate hyperparasites; (3) the single 

 dagger (t) to indicate that not all the larvae were counted — totals 

 were sometimes estimated; and (4) the double dagger (J) to indicate 

 the species so marked as the hibernating host. 



Host-Parasite List 

 Lepidoptera 



FAMILY LIMACODIDAE 

 Sibine stimulea (Clem.) saddleback caterpillar 



Food plants: Basswood, blackberry, wild cherry, corn, dahlia, 

 ginkgo, maple, oaks, perennial pea, spicebush, weeds. 



Occurrence: Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, 

 and Pennsylvania. 



Totals received: Collections, 16; larvae, 48; years, 11. 

 I Larvae: August to October. 



Pupae: Spring (hibernates as prepupal larva in cocoon). 

 I" Adults: June and July. 

 1 Parasites : 



Collections Host 

 Uiptera: Parasite Years yielding larvae 



Larvaevoridae specimens recovered parasite collected 



(Unidentified puparia) 4 119 



Phorocera longiuscv la (Wlk.) 1116 



Hymenoptera: 



Apanteles sp 1116 



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