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

Pimpla ellopiae var.

( Fig. 35 )

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. 3 ♂ ( UNAM) same data, but 17.57680ºN, 96.50661ºW, 2950 m, oak-pine forest, yellow pan traps, 16–20.vi.2008 . 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 .

Figures

FIGURES 32–35.Pimpla ellopiae, female:32—habitus,lateral;33—posterior part of mesosoma,ventro-lateral; 34—metasomal tergites 2–4, dorsal. Pimpla ellopiae, var., male: 35—mid and hind legs, lateral.