Xanthopimpla rhabdomera Townes 1969

Gómez, Isrrael C., Sääksjärvi, Ilari E., Broad, Gavin R., Puhakka, Liisa, Castillo, Carol, Peña, Carlos & Pádua, Diego G., 2014, The Neotropical species of Xanthopimpla Saussure (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), Zootaxa 3774 (1), pp. 57-73 : 69

Xanthopimpla rhabdomera Townes 1969

( Figs. 5 e, 6e, 7e)

Original description. See Townes (1969).

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from all other Neotropical Xanthopimpla by the combination of the following characters: 1) occipital carina complete dorsally; 2) propodeum with anterior transverse carina weak, sometimes discontinuous when joining lateromedian longitudinal carina; and 3) ovipositor sheath uniformly blackish about 0.4 to 0.5 times as long as hind tibia.

Distribution. Brazil, Peru.

New material examined. Brazil: Female ( BMNH): Dept. of Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia. Plaumann leg. 1937. Female ( BMNH): as above but 1944.

Peru: Female ( ZMUT) Dept. of Junin, Chanchamayo. Isrrael Gómez leg. 806 m. I. 2012.

Notes. The species is recorded for the first time outside of Brazil.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Habitus of the aurita species-group (a) Xanthopimpla allpahuaya; (b) X. aurita; (c) X. craspedoptera; (e) X. rhabdomera; (f) X. spiloptera and the unplaced species (d) X. peruana.