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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scientific name	Hymenoepimecis tedfordi Gauld, 1991
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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).