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Acrotaphus latifasciatus

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. & Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Description

1. Acrotaphus latifasciatus (Cameron, 1911)

Epimeces (sic!) latifasciatus Cameron 1911: 176 [holotype ♀ (BMNH), Guyana].

References. Morley 1914: 7 [Epimecis; in key]. Townes & Townes 1960: 256 [Acrotaphus (comb.)]. Townes & Townes 1966: 19 [catalogue; Mexico]. Gauld 1991: 331 [Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Guyana, Peru; biological notes]. Gauld et al. 1998: 119, 120 [in key; Costa Rica]. Pádua et al. 2020a: 39 [description; Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Mexico (Veracruz, Chiapas), Panama, Peru, Venezuela].

Material examined. MEXICO. Veracruz: 1 ♀ (UAT) 25 km NE of San Andrés Tuxtla, Biological Station Los Tuxtlas, 160 m, 12.viii.1985, coll. A. Ibarra. 1 ♀ (EMEC) Biological Station Los Tuxtlas, at lites, 1–9.vii.1988, coll. J.A. Chemsak. 1 ♀ (UNAM) same locality, 8.i.1980, coll. G. Ortega. 1 ♂ (UNAM) same locality, 17.xi.1985, coll. E. Ramirez. 1 ♀ (UNAM) same locality, 3.x.1985, coll. C. Meyorga & V. Meléndez. 1 ♀ (UNAM) same locality, 9.iv.1986, coll. P. Sinaca. 2 ♀ (UNAM) same locality, 13–20.xi, 15–19.xii.1988, coll. E. Mejorada. 1 ♂ (UNAM) same locality, 30.vi.1989, coll. M.A. Perez. 2 ♀ (UNAM) same locality, 10.x and 14.xi.1989, coll. P. Sinaca. 1 ♀ (UNAM) same locality, 1.xi.1989, coll. S. Zaragoza. Chiapas: 1 ♀ (EMEC) Simojovel, 1–16.viii.1958, coll. J.A. Chemsak. HONDURAS. 1 ♀ (TAMU) Atlántida, La Ceiba, Río Cangrejal, 16.xii.1995, coll. J. Luhman.

Distribution. Mexico (Veracruz, Chiapas), Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil.

Biology. Nocturnally active species, regularly attracted to light sheets at night. Probably parasitoid of large nocturnal araneid (Gauld 1991).

Notes

Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I., Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique & Coronado-Blanco, Juana María, 2024, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Polysphincta genus-group, pp. 151-196 in Zootaxa 5458 (2) on pages 154-155, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11369805

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F68792FFAAFF93FF7F27E6FE005548

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.2.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/11369805 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFCFFFEAFFA9FF97FFE8213CFFFF5775 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/3434A429-E512-4C57-B0C0-8B95E74DC31C (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03F68792FFAAFF93FF7F27E6FE005548 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/231585370 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/297547/taxon/03F68792FFAAFF93FF7F27E6FE005548.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , EMEC , TAMU , UAT , UNAM
Event date
1958-08-01 , 1980-01-08 , 1985-08-12 , 1985-10-03 , 1985-11-17 , 1986-04-09 , 1988-07-01 , 1988-12-15 , 1989-06-30 , 1989-10-10 , 1989-11-01 , 1995-12-16
Verbatim event date
1958-08-01/16 , 1985-08-12 , 1988-07-01/09 , 1988-12-15/19 , 1989-10-10/11-14 , 1995-12-16
Scientific name authorship
Cameron
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Acrotaphus
Species
latifasciatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Acrotaphus latifasciatus (Cameron, 1911) sec. Khalaim, Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2024

References

  • Cameron, P. (1911) On the Hymenoptera of the Georgetown Museum, British Guiana. Part I. Timehri, Series 3, 1, 153 - 186.
  • Morley, C. (1914) A revision of the Ichneumonidae based on the collection in the British Museum (Natural History). Part III. Tribes Pimplides and Bassides. British Museum (Natural History), London, xiii + 148 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 191419140417
  • Townes, H. K. & Townes, M. (1960) Ichneumon-flies of America North of Mexico: 2. Subfamilies Ephialtinae, Xoridinae, Acaenitinae. United States National Museum Bulletin, 216 (Part 2), 1 - 676. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.216.1 - 2
  • Townes, H. K. & Townes, M. (1966) A catalogue and reclassification of the Neotropic Ichneumonidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 8, 1 - 367.
  • Gauld, I. D. (1991) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 1. Introduction, keys to subfamilies, and keys to the species of the lower Pimpliform subfamilies Rhyssinae, Poemeniinae, Acaenitinae and Cylloceriinae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 47, 1 - 589.
  • Gauld, I. D., Ugalde-Gomez, J. A. & Hanson, P. (1998) Guia de los Pimplinae de Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 46 (Supplement 1), 1 - 189.
  • Padua, D. G., Saaksjarvi, I. E., Monteiro, R. F. & Oliveira, M. L. (2020 a) Review of the New World genus Acrotaphus Townes, 1960 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), with descriptions of fifteen new species. Zootaxa, 4719 (1), 1 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4719.1.1