Preantennal region with hyaline margin emarginate in front. 

 Dorsal anterior plate with anterior margin emarginate and unevenly 

 sclerotized. Pterothorax obtusely angled on abdomen. 



Kellogg (1896) records this species from Kansas; Peters (1928) 

 Ohio; Peters (1936) Florida, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York, 

 Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia; and Brimley (1938) North Carolina. 



Measurements: Philopterus sialii (Osborn, 1896) 

 (from Kellogg, 1896) 



Head Length 

 Head Width 

 Abdomen Width 

 Total Length 



Specimen s Host 



1 slide Sialia sialia Augusta, Me. VI-26-1943 A.E.B. 



Philopterus tropioalis Carriker, 1956 



Philopterus tropicalis Carriker, 1956. Florida Ent., 39: 19, 



figs. 1 and 2. (3 and 4)? 

 Type host: Stelgidopteryx rufioollis (Vieillot) — Rough-winged 



Swallow. 



Preantennal region with narrow f rons , hyaline margin and dorsal 

 anterior plate indented medially; temples with 3 long setae on each 

 side. Prothorax very short. Pterothorax with 9 pustulated setae on 

 each side of the midline. As of 1956, the female of this species was 

 unknown and to the best of my knowledge is still unknown. 



Measurements: Philopterus tropicalis Carriker, 1956 



d 



Head Length .49 



Head Width .43 



Prothorax Width .28 



Pterothorax Width .39 



Abdomen Width .58 



Abdomen Length .63 



Total Length 1.32 



PHYSCONELLOIDES 



Physconelloides Ewing, 1927. J. Wash. Acad. Sci. , 17: 94. 



Type species: Physconelloides ceratooeps Ewing, 1927. 

 Goniocotacanthus Guimaraes, 1936. Rev. Mus. S. Paulo, 20: 225. 



Type species: Goniocotacanthus mattogrossensis Guimaraes, 1936, 



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