Xanthopimpla spiloptera Krieger 1914

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 spiloptera Krieger 1914

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

Original description. See Krieger (1914).

Re-description in English. 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 posterior transverse carina strongly angulate; 3) ovipositor sheath about 0.55 to 0.75 times as long as hind tibia; and 4) fore wing strongly infumate apically.

Distribution. Brazil, French Guiana, Peru.

New material examined. Brazil: Female ( BMNH): Dept. of Santa Catarina, Nova Teutônia. Plaumann leg. XI.1935. Female ( BMNH): as above but 30.VII.1937. Female ( BMNH): as above but 12.VIII.1937. Female ( BMNH): as above but VI.1937. Female ( BMNH): as above but 10.VII.1937. Female ( BMNH): as above but 12.VI.1937. Female ( BMNH): as above but 27.IX.1938. Female ( BMNH): as above but 1939. Female ( BMNH): as above but 1938.

French Guiana: Female ( ZMUT) Montage des Chevaux. Seag leg. VI.2011.

Peru: Female ( BMNH) Dept. of Junin, coordillera azul J.M. Schunke leg. 760 m. 24.V.1965. B.M. 1965-529.

Notes. The species is recorded from 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.