Hymenoepimecis pucallpina Padua & Saeaeksjaervi, 2020

Padua, Diego Galvao de, Saeaeksjaervi, Ilari Eerikki, Monteiro, Ricardo Ferreira & Oliveira, Marcio Luiz de, 2020, 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, pp. 57-92 : 57

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.935.50492
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scientific name	Hymenoepimecis pucallpina Padua & Saeaeksjaervi
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Hymenoepimecis pucallpina Padua & Saeaeksjaervi sp. nov. Figures 11 View Figures 1–15 , 26 View Figures 16–30 , 41 View Figures 31–45 , 56 View Figures 46–60 , 71 View Figures 67–71 , 86 View Figures 76–90

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from all other Hymenoepimecis by the combination of the following characters: 1) fore wing black, with a yellowish band between junction of vein R1 up to pterostigma until half vein M; 2) metasoma entirely black; 3) hind leg black; 4) occipital carina projected and curved upwards dorsally.

Description.

Female. Body approx. [16.0] mm; face [1.0] times as broad as high, smooth, slightly convex with few spaced bristles; head in dorsal view, with gena slightly narrowed behind eyes; posterior ocelli separated from eyes by approx. [1.2] times its own maximum diameter; occipital carina projected and curved upwards dorsally. Pronotum long, smooth and polished, with distance from tegula to head greater than [0.6] times distance from tegula to hind margin of propodeum, and in anterior part with opening pocket-like structure not reduced longitudinally; mesoscutum smooth and polished; scutellum, in profile, convex; mesopleuron smooth and polished, with anterodorsal and posterodorsal parts bearing sparse, fine setiferous punctures; metapleuron smooth and polished, with a few sparse, fine setiferous punctures; propodeum smooth, polished, with sparse, fine setiferous punctures and with lateral longitudinal carina present only posteriorly. Fore wing approx. [13.0] mm; cu-a interstitial to the base of Rs&M; 2rs-m approx. [0.75] times as long as abscissa of M between 2rs-m and 2m-cu; hind wing with abscissa of Cu1 meet cu-a equidistant between 1A and M. Hind leg with tibia + tarsus [0.6] times the fore wing length; tarsal claw with more or less square basal lobe with apex of claw overtaking the lobe. Metasoma slender; tergite I [1.6] times as long as posteriorly width, centrally quite strongly convex with lateral carinae present only at extreme anterior end flanking the anterior concavity; sternite I with a low, rounded swelling posteriorly; tergite II approx. [1.3] times as long as posteriorly width; tergites III-IV approx. [1.2] times as long as posteriorly width; ovipositor [1.6] times as long as hind tibia.

Colour. Head black with apical margin of clypeus and mouthparts (except apex mandible black) yellowish; antenna blackish. Mesosoma entirely orange. Fore and mid leg orange, the hind leg black. Fore wing black, with basal region yellowish and with a yellowish band between junction of vein R1 up to pterostigma until half vein M; pterostigma black, except apical margin yellowish; hind wing black with basal region and apex yellowish. Metasoma entirely black; ovipositor brownish with apex reddish brown, sheath blackish.

Male.

Unknown.

Distribution.

Peru (Fig. 109 View Figures 107–112 ).

Biological notes.

Host unknown.

Etymology.

The specific name refers to the name given to people born in the city of Pucallpa, Peru.

Type material.

Holotype ♀. Peru, Dept. Loreto, Pucallpa, 15.iv.1950 (J.M. Schunke leg.), B.M. 1950-559 [sic], NHM. Paratypes: Dept. Huánuco, Tingo Maria, Cueva de Las Pavas, 23-27.vii.1982 (C. Porter & T. O’neill leg.), 6♀♀, FSCA; idem, but 12-15.vii.1974 (C. Porter & L. Stange leg.), 2♀♀, FSCA; idem, but 20-27.i.1968 (A. Garcia & C. Porter leg.), 1♀, FSCA.

Comments.

Hymenoepimecis pucallpina sp. nov. closely resembles H. uberensis Pádua & Onody, 2015 and H. ribeiroi Pádua & Oliveira, 2015 mainly by having fore wing black with a yellowish band between junctions of vein R1 up to pterostigma until half vein M. It differs from both of these species by having the metasoma entirely black and occipital carina projected, and curved upwards dorsally (occipital carina not curved upwards and with a concavity in the apex dorsally in H. uberensis , occipital carina with dorsal margin reduced, in profile view in H. ribeiroi and metasoma orange, with tergites VI+ black in both species).