Species
Rhopalosoma nearcticum Brues, 1943
Rhopalosoma nearcticum Brues, 1943:316, ♀. Holotype ♀, Kissimmee, Florida (Museum of Comparative Zoology); Townes, 1977 Townes, H.K. 1977. A revision of the Rhopalosomatidae (Hymenoptera). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 15 (1):1-34.:21, Type ♀ (Cambridge). - Brues, 1943 Brues, C.T. 1943. The American species of Rhopalosoma. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 36 (2):310-318. (distribution); Krombein, 1951 Krombein, K.V. 1951. Superfamily Sphecoidea. In: Muesebeck, K.V. Krombein, and H.K. Townes (Ed.). Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico (Synoptic Catalog). 937-1034. (distribution), 773 (hosts [Orocharis saltator Uhler]); Gurney, 1953 Gurney, A.B. 1953. Notes on the biology and immature stages of a cricket parasite of the genus Rhopalosoma. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 103 (3313):19-34. (distribution); Krombein, 1963 Krombein, K.V. 1963. Natural history of Plummers Island, Maryland. XVII. Annotated list of the wasps (Hymenoptera: Bethyloidea, Scolioidea, Vespoidea, Pompiloidea, Sphecoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 76:255-280. (distribution); Townes, 1977 Townes, H.K. 1977. A revision of the Rhopalosomatidae (Hymenoptera). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 15 (1):1-34. (distribution, figures, key), 1 (hosts [Hapithus and Orocharis]), 16 (hosts [crickets of the subfamily Eneopterinae]), 21 (hosts [Hapithus agitator, H. brevipennis]), 22 (description); Krombein et al., 1979 Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution), 1571 (hosts [Orocharis saltator Uhler]); Walther, 1983 Walther, J.R. 1983. Antennal patterns of sensilla of the Hymenoptera - A complex character of phylogenetic reconstruction. Verhandlungen des naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 26:373-392. (morphology [antennal sensilla]); Freytag, 1984 Freytag, P.H. 1984. Rhopalosoma nearcticum Brues in Kentucky. Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences 45 (2):74-75. (R. nearcticum in Kentucky, distribution); Mason, 1986 Mason, W. R. M. 1986. Standards drawing conventions and definitions for venational and other features of wings of Hymenoptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88:1-7. (figures); Evans, 1987 Evans, H.E. 1987. Rhopalosomatidae (Pompiloidea). In: Stehr, F.W. (Ed.). Immature Insects. 679-680.:680 (biology, hosts [Orocharis & Hapithus species]); Stange, 1991 Stange, L.A. 1991. The Rhopalosomatidae of Florida. Entomology Circular 341:1-2. (photo, key to Rhopalosomatidae of Florida, distribution); Gauld, 1995 Gauld, I.D. 1995. Rhopalosomatidae. In: Hanson, P.E. & I.D. Gauld (Ed.). The Hymenoptera of Costa Rica. 548-552. (distribution), 549 (hosts [Hapithus and Orocharis species]); Poole & Gentili, 1996 Poole, R.W. & P. Gentili 1996. Nomina insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. Entomological Information Services, Rockville, Maryland. 1-793. (listed [in 'check list of the insects of north America']); McGown, 1998 McGown, M. W. 1998. Rhopalosomatidae of Mississippi. . (distribution, figures); Guidotti, 1999 Guidotti, A.E. 1999. Systematics of little known parasitic wasps of the family Rhopalosomatidae (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). Dissertation , . Canada. (distribution,
