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Iseropus Forster 1869

  • 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

Genus Iseropus Förster, 1869

Iseropus Förster 1869: 164.

Type species: Ichneumon graminellae Schrank, 1802 (= stercorator Fabricius, 1793), by subsequent monotypy (Woldestedt 1877: 16).

Synonym:

Cnemopimpla Cameron, 1903.

References. Townes & Townes 1951: 189 [catalogue; 4 species in America north of Mexico]. Townes & Townes 1960: 165 [revision of 3 species from America north of Mexico; key]. Townes & Townes 1966: 14 [catalogue; 2 species in Neotropical region]. Townes 1969: 85 [description; distribution]. Carlson 1979: 331 [catalogue; 3 species in America north of Mexico]. Gauld 1991: 228 [description; 1 species in Costa Rica (described as new)]. Gauld et al. 1998: 26 [2 species in Costa Rica (1 described as new); key]. Kasparyan 2006 [1 new species from Mexico].

Iseropus is a small genus with nine species in Holarctic and Neotropical regions. Three species occur in the Nearctic region (one of them also occurs in the Palaearctic region), two species were described from Costa Rica, and two species are restricted to South America. One species is known from Mexico.

Species of the genus are gregarious ectoparasitoids in cocoons of various Lepidoptera, especially Lasiocampidae, Lymantriidae and Tortricidae.

Notes

Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2022, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Ephialtes genus-group, pp. 201-251 in Zootaxa 5169 (3) on page 222, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5169.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6952172

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Forster
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Iseropus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Iseropus Forster, 1869 sec. Khalaim & Ruíz-Cancino, 2022

References

  • Forster, A. (1869) Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 25 (1868), 135 - 221.
  • Townes, H. K. & Townes, M. (1951) Family Ichneumonidae. In: Muesebeck, C. F. W., Krombein, K. V. & Townes, H. K. (Eds.), Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico, Synoptic catalog (United States Department of Agriculture, Monograph 2), pp. 184 - 409.
  • 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.
  • Townes, H. K. (1969) The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 1. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 11, 1 - 300. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 02027741
  • Carlson, R. W. (1979) Family Ichneumonidae. In: Krombein, K. V., Hurd Jr., P. D., Smith, D. R. & Burks, B. D. (Eds.), " Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. " Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, pp. 315 - 740.
  • 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, Suppl. 1, 1 - 189.
  • Kasparyan D. R. (2006) A new species of Iseropus Foerster from Mexico (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 14 (2) (2005), 210. https: // doi. org / 10.31610 / zsr / 2005.14.2.210