Acrotaphus tibialis
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
3. Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron, 1886)
(Figs 1–4)
Epimecis tibialis Cameron 1886: 270 [♀ ♂ (BMNH); Mexico (Valladolid in Yucatán, coll. Gaumer), Guatemala (San Gerónimo, coll. Champion), Panama (David in Chiriquí, coll. Champion)].
References. Morley 1914: 8 [Epimecis wilti (sic!), misdet. (see Gauld 1991: 333)]. Townes & Townes 1960: 256 [Acrotaphus (comb.)]. Townes & Townes 1966: 19 [catalogue; lectotype ♀ (BMNH) designated; Mexico, Yucatán, Valladolid, coll. Gaumer]. Ruíz-Cancino & Tejada 1986: 39 [Mexico (Tamaulipas)]. Gauld 1991: 333 [description; Costa Rica; host]. Gauld et al. 1998: 120 [in key; Costa Rica; host]. Gauld et al. 2002: 45 [El Salvador]. Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002: 645 [checklist; Mexico]. Brambila & Porter 2005: 153 [USA (Texas); notes on biology]. Hernández-Aguilar et al. 2005: 470 [Mexico (Tamaulipas)]. González-Moreno & Bordera 2012: 37 [Mexico (Yucatán)]. Eberhard 2013: 654 [Costa Rica; host, biology]. Rodríguez-Mota et al. 2015: 979 [Mexico (Tamaulipas)]. Pádua et al. 2020a: 52 [description; Mexico (Yucatán, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Veracruz), Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, USA (Texas)].
Material examined. MEXICO. Tamaulipas: 2 ♀ (UAT) 44 km S of Cd. Victoria, matorral, Malaise trap, 26.viii– 9.ix.2000, coll. D.R. Kasparyan. Gómez Farías, Los Cedros, Malaise trap, 1999, coll. S. Hernández-Aguilar (all in UAT): 13–20.ii (1 ♀, 1 ♂), 20.iii–3.iv (3 ♂), 3–17.iv (1 ♀, 5 ♂), 24.iv–1.v (1 ♂), 26.vi–3.vii (1 ♀). 2 ♂ (UAT) same locality, 300–340 m, Malaise trap, iv.2002, 13.iii.2003, coll. D.R. Kasparyan. 2 ♀ (UAT) Gómez Farías, Altas Cimas, Malaise trap, 1–15.v.1999, coll. S. Hernández-Aguilar. Cd. Victoria, Cañón del Novillo, 1985, coll. A. del Valle & H. Serna T. (all in UAT): 21.iv (1 ♂), 27.iv (1 ♀, 1 ♂), 5.v (2 ♂); 11.v (1 ♂), 18.v (1 ♀), 25.v (1 ♂), 17.vi (1 ♀), 21.vi (1 ♀), 25.vi (1 ♀), 8.vii (1 ♀), 22–26.vii (2 ♂), 5.viii (1 ♂), 19.viii (1 ♀). 1 ♀, 1 ♂ (UAT) same locality, 850 m, 12.xii.1987, coll. R. Meza V. 1 ♂ (UAT) same locality, 6.x.1984, coll. Hiproes. NW of Cd. Victoria, Los Troncones (park), coll. A.I. Khalaim: 1 ♂ (UAT) 23.ii.2008, 1 ♂ (ZISP) 27.ii.2009, 1 ♀ and 2 ♂ (ZISP) 25.iv.2009, 2 ♀ and 1 ♂ (ZISP) 7–13.x.2012. 1 ♀ (UAT) Cd. Victoria, Cañón La Libertad, 31.iii.1979. 1 ♀ (UAT) Cd. Victoria, 7.xii.1990, coll. C. Mendez B. 1 ♂ (UAT) same locality, 2.vi.1981, coll. E. Ruíz-Cancino. Cd. Victoria – Soto la Marina, km 68, 1985, coll. E. Ruíz-Cancino (all in UAT): 13.iii (3 ♂), 14.iv (4 ♂), 11.v (1 ♂). 1 ♀, 1 ♂ (UAT) 17 km N of Palmillas, Ejido Magdaleno Aguilar, 23°26.995’N, 99°33.440’W, 1450 m, pine forest + juniper, Malaise trap, 16–29.viii.2012, coll. E. Ruíz-Cancino & S. Mireles C. Nayarit: 1 ♀ (UNAM) Compostela, 26.x.1989, coll. A. Cadena. Jalisco: 1 ♀ (TAMU) Municipio La Huerta, Chamela Biological Station, light trap, 28.vii.1996, coll. Godwin. Veracruz: 1 ♀ (UAT) Tuxpan, Juana Moza, citricos, 13.x.1995, coll. M. Molina. 1 ♀, 1 ♂ (UNAM) NE of San Andrés Tuxtla, Biological Station Los Tuxtlas, 25.v, 24.vi.1989, coll. J.L. Colín & H. Rojas. 1 ♀ (UNAM) Los Tuxtlas, Sierra Santa Marta, pine forest [Ocotal Chíco], 19–20.vi.1982, coll. R. Sánchez. Puebla: 1 ♀ (CIUM) W of Jolalpan, Rancho El Salado, 18.33691°N, 98.98177°W, 1021 m, 4.ix.2010, coll. V.H. Toledo. Oaxaca: 2 ♀ (EMEC) Temascal, 21.ix.1963, coll. D.H. Janzen. Chiapas: 1 ♂ (UAQ) Municipio Cintalpas, 2 km W of Cinco Cerros, km 33, 31.viii.1996, coll. R. Jones.
Distribution. USA (Texas), Mexico (Tamaulipas, Nayarit, Jalisco, Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatán), Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela.
Biology. Reared from a cocoon in the web of “ Meta zigia ” (Araneidae) in Costa Rica (Gauld 1991); this host record probably belongs to Metazygia sp. (G.B. Edwards, personal comment in: Brambila & Porter 2005). Parasitoid of Argiope argentata (F.) (Araneidae) in Costa Rica (Gauld et al. 1998).
The biology and relation with its host Argiope trifasciata (Forskål) in Costa Rica was studied by Eberhard (2013). The larva of the parasitoid induces the spider to spin a modified “cocoon web” just before killing its host and pupating. The “cocoon webs” are probably better designed to support and protect the wasps’ pupal cocoons than are the normal orbs of their hosts (Eberhard 2013).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , CIUM , EMEC , TAMU , UAQ , UAT , UNAM , ZISP
- Event date
- 1963-09-21 , 1979-03-31 , 1981-06-02 , 1982-06-19 , 1984-10-06 , 1987-12-12 , 1989-06-24 , 1989-10-26 , 1990-12-07 , 1995-10-13 , 1996-07-28 , 1996-08-31 , 1999-05-01 , 2000-08-26 , 2003-03-13 , 2008-02-23 , 2009-02-27 , 2009-04-25 , 2010-09-04 , 2012-08-16 , 2012-10-07
- Verbatim event date
- 1963-09-21 , 1979-03-31 , 1981-06-02 , 1982-06-19/20 , 1984-10-06 , 1987-12-12 , 1989-06-24 , 1989-10-26 , 1990-12-07 , 1995-10-13 , 1996-07-28 , 1996-08-31 , 1999-05-01/15 , 2000-08-26/09-09 , 2008-02-23 , 2009-02-27 , 2009-04-25 , 2010-09-04 , 2012-08-16/29 , 2012-10-07/13
- Scientific name authorship
- Cameron
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Acrotaphus
- Species
- tibialis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron, 1886) sec. Khalaim, Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2024
References
- Cameron, P. (1886) Hymenoptera. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O., " Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoology ", 1, pp. 241 - 328.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Ruiz-Cancino, E. & Tejada, L. O. (1986) Generos de Ichneumonidae del Noreste de Mexico. The Southwestern Entomologist, 11 (1), 37 - 41.
- 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.
- Gauld, I. D., Menjivar, R., Monro, A. & Gonzalez, M. O. (2002) Guia para la identificacion de los Pimplinae de cafetales bajo sombra de El Salvador (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Natural History Museum, London, 76 pp. [printed in El Salvador]
- Ruiz-Cancino, E., Kasparyan, D. R. & Coronado-Blanco, J. M. (2002) 37. Ichneumonidae. In: Llorente-Bousquets, J. & Morrone, J. J. (Eds.), Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento. Conabio-Ecosur-Bayer, Mexico City, pp. 631 - 646.
- Brambila, J. & Porter, C. C. (2005) First records of Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson) and of A. tibialis (Cameron) from the United States (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Insecta Mundi, 19 (3), 151 - 157.
- Hernandez-Aguilar, S. G., Kasparyan, D. R. & Ruiz-Cancino, E. (2005) 43. Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae. In: Sanchez-Ramos, G., Reyes-Castillo, P. & Dirzo, R. (Eds.), Historia Natural de la Reserva de la Biosfera El Cielo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 2005, pp. 464 - 470.
- Gonzalez-Moreno, A. & Bordera, S. (2012) The Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan, Mexico. Zootaxa, 3230 (1), 1 - 51. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3230.1.1
- Eberhard, W. G. (2013) The polysphinctine wasps Acrotaphus tibialis, Eruga ca. gutfreundi, and Hymenoepimecis tedfordi (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) induce their host spiders to build modified webs. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 106 (5), 652 - 660. https: // doi. org / 10.1603 / AN 12147
- Rodriguez-Mota, A. J., Ruiz-Cancino, E., Khalaim, A. I., Coronado-Blanco, J. M. & Trevino-Carreon, J. (2015) Diversidad de Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) en un bosque de Pinus spp. y Juniperus flaccida en Jaumave, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 86 (4), 972 - 980. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. rmb. 2015.08.003
- 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