Pimpla ellopiae, Harrington, 1892

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, Zootaxa 5071 (4), pp. 451-491 : 473

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5726464

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B1511358-8F00-5F34-FF06-FC44FAD9FD23

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scientific name

Pimpla ellopiae
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Pimpla ellopiae View in CoL var.

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Remarks. This variation differs from typical specimens of P. ellopiae by characters given in the key above (couplet 15). Males are recognizable less easily than females as only coloration of hind tibia is found to work well for their separation, though small males of P. ellopiae var. sometimes have hind tibia paler, dirty dark reddish rather than reddish black. Pimpla ellopiae var. resembles the Costa Rican species P. hubendickae Gauld as both have reddish brown metasoma, predominantly black hind leg with dark red femur and sparsely punctate on smooth background tergites 2–5 in females, but differs from this species by its entirely black metapleuron and propodeum, and yellow marked mid leg.

Material examined. MEXICO. Tamaulipas: 1 ♀ ( UAT) Gómez Farías , Rancho El Cielo, 2.xi.1990, coll. H. Ruíz C. Guerrero: 1 ♀ ( TAMU) 6.4 mi. SW of Filo de Caballo , 9000 ft. (= 2745 m), 8.vii.1987, coll. R. Wharton. 1 ♂ ( TAMU) 7 mi. SW of Filo de Caballo , 12.vii.1985, coll. J. Woolley & G. Zolnerowich. Oaxaca: 2 ♀, 6 ♂ ( TAMU) Llano de las Flores , 8900 ft. (= 2715 m), 17–19.vii.1987, coll. R. Wharton. 5 ♂ (3 ♂ in UNAM, 2 ♂ in ZISP) Santiago Comaltepec , 17.58429ºN, 96.49398ºW, 2332 m, 6.vi.2009, coll. H. Clebsch. GoogleMaps 3 ♂ ( UNAM) same data, but 17.57680ºN, 96.50661ºW, 2950 m, oak-pine forest, yellow pan traps, 16–20.vi.2008 GoogleMaps . 10 ♂ (9 ♂ in UNAM, 1 ♂ in ZISP) same data, but 17.58424ºN, 96.49428ºW, 2427 m, humid oak-pine forest, Malaise trap, 12–20.vi.2007 GoogleMaps .

UAT

Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas

TAMU

Texas A&M University

UNAM

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

ZISP

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Pimpla

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