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Very little biological work has been done on the neotropical 
chrysidids. Host data has been reported for Omalus by Benoist 
(1942), Trichrysis, Chrysis and Neochrysis by Perez-D’Angello 
(1968), Coville and Coville (1980), Ducke (1904), Fritz (pers. comm), 
Janvier (1933) and Ruiz (1938), Adelphe and Mesitiopterus by 
Krombein (1957) and Duckeia by Costa Lima (1936). 
Table I. Host records, distribution and number of species of 
neotropical Chrysididae. 
Subfamily Cleptinae 
Cleptidea —host not recorded; southern Mexico to Brazil; 6 species. 
Subfamily Amiseginae 
Duckeia —Phasmatidae: Prisopus sp. (eggs); Brazil; 1 species. 
Amisega —Phasmatidae?: Costa Rica to Brazil; 4 species. 
Mesitiopterus —Phasmatidae: Diapheromera sp. (eggs); southern 
Mexico to Venezuela; 2 species. 
Adelphe —Phasmatidae: Anisomorpha; Mexico to Brazil; 4 species. 
Nesogyne —host not recorded; Dominican Republic; 1 species 
Subfamily Elampinae 
Omalus —Sphecidae: Pemphredoninae: Stigmus; Mexico, Brazil, 
Argentina and Chile; 5 species. 
Elampus —Sphecidae (not recorded in neotropics); Cuba, Venezuela, 
Brazil, Argentina; Chile; 3 species. 
Holopyga —Sphecidae (not recorded in neotropics); Dominican 
Republic, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Chile; 7 species. 
Hedychridium —Sphecidae and Apoidea (not recorded in neo¬ 
tropics); Mexico to Chile; 3 species. 
Hedychrum —Sphecidae: Philanthinae?(not recorded in neotropics); 
widespread; 6 species. 
Subfamily Chrysididinae 
Chrysis —Eumenidae: Hypodynerus and Stenodynerus; widespread; 
12 species. 
Ceratochrysis —Eumenidae, Sphecidae; Mexico: Chihuahua and 
Baja California; 2 species. 
