Dolichogenidea ensiger (Say, 1836)

Fig. 47 A – E

Distribution.

Canada (AB, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK), Costa Rica, United States (AK, AL, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, MA, MD, MO, MT, NH, NJ, NY, NC, TN).

Biology.

Solitary (?). Crambidae: Fissicrambus mutabilis, Neodactria zeellus; Tortricidae: Choristoneura freemani, Epiblema strenuana .

DNA barcoding data.

BIN BOLD: AAA 3764 (335 sequences, 333 barcode compliant).

Notes.

This species is here recorded for the first time in the Neotropical region, based on a single specimen from ACG, Costa Rica (voucher code ON 101953). All other known records are from North America, where the species is widely distributed (e. g., Fernandez-Triana et al. 2014 b, 2014 c).