Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
In addition to the host records cited under several species in this subgenus, Parker and Bohart, 1968 (Pan-Pacific Ent. 44: 2, 3 and 5) record several unidentified species of Sphaeropthalma (Photopsis) from the following hosts from nests in twigs: Ancistrocerus catskill (Sauss.); Odynerus erythrogaster Bohart; Pisonopsis birkmanni Rohwer; Anthocopa hypostomalis Michener; Hoplitis fulgida (Cresson); H. sambuci Titus; and Proteriades bullifacies (Michener). Ferguson, 1962 (Univ. Calif. Pubs. Ent. 27: tab. 9) states that Davidson reared an unidentified species of Sphaeropthalma (Photopsis) from a nest of Hoplitis producta (Cresson) in a hollow plant stem.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
