Tmetogaster, HOPPER, 1939

Sime, Karen R. & Wahl, David B., 2002, The cladistics and biology of the Callajoppa genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Ichneumoninae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 134 (1), pp. 1-56 : 35-36

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TMETOGASTER HOPPER, 1939 View in CoL

Conocalama View in CoL subgenus Tmetogaster Hopper, 1939: 321 View in CoL . Type-species: Trogus nubilipennis Haldeman. Monotypic and original designation.

Autapomorphies. Clypeus uniformly thick (#6–0);

pronotal flange low and with posterior face convex (#18–1); juxtacoxal carina present (#22–0); metapleuron rugosopunctate, with long and transverse rugae (#36–1).

Species and distribution. There is one species, Tmetogaster nubilipennis , from eastern North America.

Biology. Several records establish T. nubilipennis as a larval–pupal parasitoid of Sphingidae . We have examined two specimens [NMNH] reared from Paonias myops . Hopper (1939) lists ‘ Ampelophaga sp. ’, apparently an erroneous reference either to the species ampelophaga Walker (synonym Eumorpha pandorus (Hübner)) or to the genus Ampeloeca (Darapsa) . Heinrich 1962 used the latter interpretation and supported the record with an observation of a female captured at Vitis plants infested with D. myron (Cramer) larvae. Hopper (1939) also provides an unverifiable record of Sphecodina abbottii (Swainson) , another Vitaceaefeeding sphingid ( Hodges, 1971). His reports of T. nubilipennis attacking Pyrrharctia isabella (Arctiidae) and Papilio polyxenes (Papilionidae) ( Hopper, 1939) are also not corroborated by specimens or biological data and must be considered implausible.