Apodicrania termitophila (Borgmeier 1923)

Apodicrania termitophila (Borgmeier)

Syneura termitophila Borgmeier, 1923b, p. 57, fig. 6 [♂ ♀; Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro]; 1925b, p. 233, pl. XI; fig. 53.

Apodicrania termitophila (Borgmeier).—Borgmeier, 1933, p. 384; 1963b, p. 479.

Two males and 1 female (in alcohol), Dominica, Clarke Hall, 1–10 Feb. 1963, light trap (W. W. Wirth).

In my collection also from Central America and from Brazil.

Pseudacteon antiguensis (Malloch)

LITERATURE AND SYNONYMS.—See Borgmeier, 1963a, p. 200, figs. 196 (ovipositor), 197 (hypopygium).

Holotype male (USNM 14896) and paratypes males (USNM, CTB), Antigua, B.W.I.

This is a very striking species which is a parasite of Solenopsis geminata and S. saevissima. The female is easily recognized by the large horse-shoe shaped ovipositor, and the male by the digitiform processes of the hypopygium. See the redescription and figures in Borgmeier (1963a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED (according to Wirth).—18 males and 24 females, of which I have seen 3 males and 5 females, Dominica, Clarke Hall, Malaise trap, 11–31 Jan. 1965 (W.W. Wirth).

DISTRIBUTION.—Antilles, Mexico, Brazil. Probably occurring also in the southern United States.