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Eiphosoma nigrum Townes & Townes 1966

  • 1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil.

Description

Eiphosoma nigrum (Szépligeti, 1906)

Figs 15–21

Xiphosoma nigra Szépligeti, 1906: 119. Holotype female, Brazil (TM).

Eiphosoma parana Morley, 1913: 53. Holotype female, Brazil (NHM).

Eiphosoma nigrum (Szépligeti) Townes & Townes, 1966: 164.

Diagnosis. Coloration predominantly black (Figs 15–16); mandible weakly and evenly tapered towards distal end, with upper tooth much stouter and slightly longer than the lower (Fig. 17); scutellum entirely punctate (Fig. 18); propodeum centrally with longitudinal groove smooth, laterally closely and shallowly punctate (Fig. 19); fore wing with 3 rs -m enclosing an almost triangular aerolet that is petiolate above and below (Fig. 20) (Gauld 2000).

Examined material. 3♁. Colombia, Caquetá: Florencia, Vereda San Francisco San Pacho, finca El Recreo, 01°42’24”N, 75°36’36” W, 643 m, 21.XII.2016 – 04.I.2017, trampa Malaise en cultivo de caña (Saccharum officinarum), Y. Ramos-Pastrana (1♁, LEUA –53604); idem Vereda Tarqui, 01°51’04”N, 75°40’01” W, 1719 m, 15.II.–01.III.2017, trampa Malaise en bosque secundario-dosel, Y. Ramos-Pastrana (1♁, LEUA –53605), idem (1♁, LEUA –53606).

New World geographical distribution. Colombia (Caquetá); Costa Rica (Alajuela, Guanacaste, Puntarenas); Brazil (Mato Grosso, Pará) (Yu e t al. 2016; Fernandes et al. 2023). (Fig. 21).

Habitat. The specimens were collected with Malaise and suspendable type flight intersection traps at ground level and canopy in secondary forest and sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum) cultivation. The vegetation of the collection site corresponds to forests of the Andean-Amazonian foothills.

Hosts. Lepidoptera: Pyralidae (Gauld 2000).

Notes

Published as part of Cuéllar-Ramírez, Mauricio, Ramos-Pastrana, Yardany & Fernandes, Daniell R. R., 2023, Five new species of Eiphosoma Cresson, 1865 (Ichneumonidae: Cremastinae) from Colombia, new records, and a key to Colombian species, pp. 451-491 in Zootaxa 5330 (4) on page 460, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8255175

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LEUA , TM
Event date
2016-12-21
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Eiphosoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Townes & Townes
Species
nigrum
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2016-12-21/2017-03-01
Taxonomic concept label
Eiphosoma nigrum Townes, 1966 sec. Cuéllar-Ramírez, Ramos-Pastrana & Fernandes, 2023

References

  • Szepligeti, G. (1906) Neu exotische Ichneumoniden aus der Sammlung des ungarischen National-Museums. Annales Historico- Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 4, 119 - 156.
  • Morley, C. (1913) The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma, Hymenoptera (Vol. 3). Ichneumonidae. British Museum, London, 531 pp.
  • Townes, H. & Townes, M. (1966) A catalogue and reclassification of the neotropic Ichneumonidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 8, 1 - 367.
  • Gauld, I. D. (2000) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 3. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 63, 35 - 315.
  • Fernandes, D. R. R., Santos, B. F., Padua, D. G. & Araujo, R. O. (2023) Ichneumonidae. In: Catalogo Taxonomico da Fauna do Brasil. PNUD. Available from: http: // fauna. jbrj. gov. br / fauna / faunadobrasil / 9309 (accessed 6 June 2023)