Calliephialtes sittenfeldae Gauld, Ugalde-Gómez & Hanson, 1998

Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2022, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Ephialtes genus-group, Zootaxa 5169 (3), pp. 201-251 : 213

4. Calliephialtes sittenfeldae Gauld, Ugalde-Gómez & Hanson, 1998

( Figs 9, 10 , 15, 16 )

Calliephialtes sittenfeldae Gauld et al. 1998: 144 [holotype ♀ (INBio), Costa Rica, Guanacaste Prov., National Park Rincón de la Vieja, Estación Las Pailas , 800 m, iv.1994, coll. K.E. Taylor; ♀].

References. Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2010: 63 [checklist; Mexico (Tamaulipas)]. López-Ortega & Khalaim 2011 [ Mexico (Veracruz); description of male; host, biology].

Material examined. MEXICO. Tamaulipas: 1 ♀, 1 ♂ (UAT) Gómez Farías, Altas Cimas , Malaise trap, 27.iii– 17.iv.1999, coll. S. Hernández A. 1 ♂ (UAT) same data, but 8–15.v.1999 . 3 ♀ (UAT) Gómez Farías, Los Cedros , 17.iv–15.v.1999, coll. S. Hernández A. 1 ♀ ( ZISP) same locality, 340 m, Malaise trap, iii.2002 , coll. D. R. Kasparyan . Veracruz: 9 ♀, 6 ♂ (UAT) 15 km S of Xalapa, Tejelo, on Schoephia schreberi, ex Anastrepha spatulata , ii–iii.2007, coll. M. López-Ortega. 1 ♀, 1 ♂ (TAMU) Barranca de Ixtla, on Schoephia schreberi, ex Anastrepha spatulata , 3.iii.2005, coll. Martin Pale.

Distribution. Mexico (Tamaulipas, Veracruz), Costa Rica.

Biology. Parasitoid of Anastrepha spatulata Stone ( Diptera : Tephritidae ) on Schoephia schreberi J.F. Gmel. ( Olacaceae ) in Mexico ( López-Ortega & Khalaim 2011).

Figures

FIGURES 8–12. Calliephialtes grapholithae, ♀ (Tamaulipas): 8—habitus (without one antenna and ovipositor), lateral. Calliephialtes sittenfeldae, ♀ (Tamaulipas): 9—habitus, lateral; 10—metasomal tergites 1–3, dorsal. Calliephialtes thurberiae, ♀ (Tamaulipas): 11—habitus, lateral; 12—apex of ovipositor, lateral.

FIGURES 13–17. Calliephialtes grapholithae, ♀ (Tamaulipas): 13—mesosoma and base of metasoma, lateral; 14—hind leg, lateral. Calliephialtes sittenfeldae, ♀ (Tamaulipas): 15—head, mesosoma and base of metasoma, lateral; 16—hind leg, lateral. Calliephialtes thurberiae, ♀ (Tamaulipas): 17—mesosoma and base of metasoma, lateral.