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Pimpla caerulea Brulle 1846

  • 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

Pimpla caerulea Brullé, 1846

Pimpla caerulea Brullé 1846: 101 [holotype ♀ (MNHN), Brazil, “prov. de Rio-Grande ”].

References. Morley 1914: 70 [Mexico (Veracruz), Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil]. Townes & Townes 1966: 24 [Coccygomimus caeruleus caeruleus; catalogue;? Mexico]. Porter 1970a: 54 [Coccygomimus caeruleus; description; distribution in South America; host]. Ruíz-Cancino & Tejada 1986: 39 [Coccygomimus caeruleus; Mexico (Nuevo León)]. Gauld 1991: 522 [notes on distribution: South America]. Díaz 2000: 248 [Venezuela]. Kumagai & Graf 2000: 162 [Brazil (Paraná)]. Kumagai & Graf 2002: 450 [Brazil (Paraná)]. Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002: 645 [checklist; Mexico]. Sánchez-García et al. 2015: 828 [checklist; Mexico (Oaxaca)]. Pádua et al. 2020: 29 [diagnosis; Uruguay].

Remarks. This is a South American species probably extending to Panama. Records of this species from Mexico (Ruíz-Cancino & Tejada 1986; Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002; Sánchez-García et al. 2015) actually belong to P. caeruleata.

Distribution. South America.

Biology. Parasitoid of the moth Alabama argillacea (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), pest of cotton, at Tucumán, Argentina (Townes & Townes 1966: 24; Porter 1970a: 62).

Notes

Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2021, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: genera Apechthis Förster, Itoplectis Förster and Pimpla Fabricius, pp. 451-491 in Zootaxa 5071 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5726393

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN
Scientific name authorship
Brulle
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Pimpla
Species
caerulea
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pimpla caerulea Brulle, 1846 sec. Khalaim & Ruíz-Cancino, 2021

References

  • Brulle, M. A. (1846) Les Ichneumonides. In: Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hymenopteres. Tome Quatrieme. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, pp. 56 - 324.
  • 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.
  • Townes, H. K. & Townes, M. (1966) A catalogue and reclassification of the Neotropic Ichneumonidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 8, 1 - 367.
  • Porter, C. C. (1970 a) A revision of the South American species of Coccygomimus (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Studia Entomologica, 13 (1 - 4), 1 - 192.
  • Ruiz-Cancino, E. & Tejada, L. O. (1986) Generos de Ichneumonidae del noreste de Mexico. The Southwestern Entomologist, 11 (1), 37 - 41.
  • 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.
  • Diaz, F. A. (2000) The Venezuelan species of Pimpla (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 9 (2), 246 - 253.
  • Kumagai, A. F. & Graf, V. (2000) Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) de areas urbana e rural de Curitiba, Parana, Brasil. Acta Biologica Paranaense, 29 (1 - 4), 153 - 168. https: // doi. org / 10.5380 / abpr. v 29 i 0.588
  • Kumagai, A. F. & Graf, V. (2002) Biodiversidade de Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) e monitoramento das especies de Pimplinae e Poemeniinae do Capao da Imbuia, Curitiba, Parana. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 19 (2), 445 - 452. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81752002000200010
  • Ruiz-Cancino, E., Kasparyan, D. R. & Coronado-Blanco, J. M. (2002) 37. Ichneumonidae. In: Llorente-Bousquets, J. & Morrone, J. J. (Eds.), Biodeversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento. Conabio-Ecosur-Bayer, Mexico, pp. 631 - 646.
  • Sanchez-Garcia, J. A., Jarquin-Lopez, R., Martinez-Martinez, L., Coronado-Blanco, J. M. & Ruiz-Cancino, E. (2015) Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) del Estado de Oaxaca, Mexico. Entomologia Mexicana, 2, 823 - 829.
  • Padua, D. G., Fernandes, D. R. R. & Saaksjarvi, I. E. (2020) Pimpla Fabricius, 1804 (Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from Uruguay: a replacement name, new records, and an identification key to the species. ZooKeys, 1007, 23 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 1007.56328