Phrosinella (Euhilarella) fulvicornis ( Coquillett, 1895 )

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Phrosinella (Euhilarella) fulvicornis ( Coquillett, 1895)

Gymnoprosopa fulvicornis Coquillett, 1895: 106 [♂ ♀].

Hilarella fulvicornis : Coquillett, 1897: 128 [notes]; Barber, 1915: 187 [habits]; Britton, 1920: 192 [faunistic]; Brimley, 1922: 23 [faunistic]; Strickland, 1938: 175, [faunistic]; Davis and Turner, 1978: 111 [faunistic].

Phrosinella fulvicornis : Allen, 1924: 92 [notes]; 1926: 70 [redescriptions of ♂ ♀, habits, faunistic]; Rowe, 1932 [faunistic]; Krombein, 1936: 93 [habits]; Séguy, 1941: 305 [hosts]; Strandtmann, 1945: 305–308 [habits]; Krombein, 1955: 223 [habits]; Downes, 1965: 938 [catalogue]; Kurczewski and Harris, 1968: 81 [habits]; Miller and Kurczewski, 1973: 365 [habits]; Peckham et al., 1973: 647 [habits]; Miller and Kurczewski, 1975: 82 [habits]; Peckham, 1977: 823 [habits]; Downes, 1985: 271 [taxonomy & faunistic]; Spofford et al., 1989: 257 [hosts]; Pape, 1996: 123 [catalogue]; Pickering, 2011: 1631, 1653, 1657, 1660, 1661, 1685, 1693, 1712, 1713, 1721, 1724, 1725 [habits].

Holotype (male): USA, New Jersey, Avalon . Holotype in USNM .

Distribution: Nearctic: Canada (New Brunswick: Prince Edward I.) 9, USA (Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas).

Habits: Larvae develop in ground nests of different sphecid wasps, where they feed at host prey (paralyzed or freshly killed insects), viz:

1. At freshly killed adult flies: Bembix americana ( Barber, 1915; Krombein, 1936; Evans, 1966a; Peckham and Peckham, 1898), Bembix spinolae ( Allen, 1926; Séguy, 1941; Evans, 1957), Lindenius armaticeps ( Miller and Kurczewski, 1973, 1975), Oxybelus bipunctatus ( Kurczewski and Harris, 1968; Peckham et al., 1973), O. emarginatus ( Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963; Peckham, 1977), O. quadrinotatus ( Séguy, 1941) , O. subulatus ( Peckham et al., 1973; Peckham, 1977), O. uniglumis ( Allen, 1926; Strandtmann, 1945; Krombein, 1955; Evans and Lin, 1959; Evans, 1970; Peckham et al., 1973).

2. At freshly killed adult solitary wasps, bees, and honey bees: Philanthus albopilosus ( Spofford et al., 1989) , P. crabroniformis ( Spofford et al., 1989) , P. gibbosus ( Evans and O’Neil, 1988) , P. politus ( Evans and O’Neil, 1988) , P. pulcher ( Evans, 1966b, 1970), P. sanbornii ( Evans and O’Neil, 1988) , P. solivagus ( Ristich, 1956) , P. zebratus ( Spofford et al., 1989) .

3. At paralyzed nymphs and adults of Orthoptera : Tachysphex acutus ( Kurczewski, 1964) , Tachysphex mergus ( Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963) , T. similis , T. tarsatus ( Kurczewski, 1964) , T. terminatus ( Krombein and Kurczewski, 1963; Kurczewski, 1964; Kurczewski and Harris, 1968).

4. At paralyzed or freshly killed nymphs and adults of Homoptera, Cicadoidea: Alysson melleus ( Evans, 1966a) , Gorytes canaliculatus ( Evans, 1966a, 1970, 1973)

5. At freshly killed adult and nymphs of Hemiptera, Homoptera , adult Hymenoptera and Diptera : Lindnerius columbianus ( Miller and Kurczewski, 1973; Pickering, 2011).