Hymenoepimecis tedfordi Gauld, 1991

Khalaim, Andrey I., Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique & Coronado-Blanco, Juana María, 2024, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Polysphincta genus-group, Zootaxa 5458 (2), pp. 151-196 : 170

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2. Hymenoepimecis tedfordi Gauld, 1991 View in CoL

Hymenoepimecis tedfordi Gauld 1991: 340 View in CoL [holotype ♀ (INBio), Costa Rica, San José Prov., San Antonio de Escazú , 1400 m, i.1984, coll. W.G. Eberhard; ♀ ♂; host].

References. Gauld et al. 1998: 121 [in key; Costa Rica]. Gauld 2000: 216 [in key; Costa Rica]. Gauld et al. 2002: 46 [ El Salvador]. Eberhard 2013: 655 [ Costa Rica; host; biology]. Pádua et al. 2020b: 60, 62 [in key], 89 [diagnosis; Nicaragua].

Diagnosis. Wings hyaline. Mesosoma predominantly reddish orange with propleuron, pronotum and propodeum blackish. Metasoma with all tergites black or dark reddish black. Sternite 1 with a low, rounded swelling posteriorly. Distance from tegula to head about 0.6× distance from tegula to hind margin of propodeum.

Variation. A single female from Mexico generally corresponds with the original description of this species, but has apical metasomal tergites more or less dark reddish black.

Material examined. MEXICO. Chiapas: 1 ♀ ( EMEC) Mahosik’, Tenejapa, 4800 ft. (= 1465 m), 9–12.vii.1966, coll. D.E. Breedlove & L. Emmel.

Distribution. Mexico (Chiapas), El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica. First record from Mexico.

Biology. Reared from spider Leucauge mariana (Keyserling) ( Tetragnathidae ) in Costa Rica ( Gauld 1991); the host-parasitoid relations with this host were studied by Eberhard (2013).

References

Eberhard, W. G. (2013) The polysphinctine wasps Acrotaphus tibialis, Eruga ca. gutfreundi, and Hymenoepimecis tedfordi (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) induce their host spiders to build modified webs. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 106 (5), 652 - 660. https: // doi. org / 10.1603 / AN 12147

Gauld, I. D. (1991) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 1. Introduction, keys to subfamilies, and keys to the species of the lower Pimpliform subfamilies Rhyssinae, Poemeniinae, Acaenitinae and Cylloceriinae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 47, 1 - 589.

Gauld, I. D., Ugalde-Gomez, J. A. & Hanson, P. (1998) Guia de los Pimplinae de Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 46 (Supplement 1), 1 - 189.

Gauld, I. D. (2000) The re-definition of Pimpline genus Hymenoepimecis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) with a description of a plesiomorphic new Costa Rican species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 9 (2), 213 - 219.

Gauld, I. D., Menjivar, R., Monro, A. & Gonzalez, M. O. (2002) Guia para la identificacion de los Pimplinae de cafetales bajo sombra de El Salvador (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Natural History Museum, London, 76 pp. [printed in El Salvador]

Padua, D. G., Saaksjarvi, I. E., Monteiro, R. F. & Oliveira, M. L. (2020 b) Seven new species of spider-attacking Hymenoepimecis Viereck (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from Ecuador, French Guiana, and Peru, with an identification key to the world species. ZooKeys, 935, 57 - 92. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 935.50492