Umanella Gauld, 1991

Broad, Gavin, Sääksjärvi, Ilari & Palacio, Edgard, 2010, A new species of Umanella Gauld (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Ecuador, ZooKeys 35 (35), pp. 77-90 : 80

Umanella Gauld, 1991

Gauld (1991) provides an excellent description of the genus Umanella , which we are not repeating here, and provides a key to Costa Rican Pimplinae genera which serves to diagnose Umanella anywhere in South America. Of the South American Pimplinae , Umanella is the only genus with a long ovipositor, metallic blue colouration (Fig. 1) and lacking the epicnemial carina ( Fig. 2 ). Some Pimpla are metallic blue but can be easily separated by the relatively short ovipositor (less than half as long as fore wing), generally stout body and presence of the epicnemial carina. Some Neotropical Dolichomitus resemble Umanella in body shape but are never metallic blue in colouration and lack the lateral denticles on the apex of the upper valve of the ovipositor.

Figures

Figure 2. U. giacometti, female holotype, detail of head and mesosoma.