Pimpla rufipes (Miller, 1759)

Mifsud, David, Farrugia, Lucia & Shaw, Mark R., 2019, Braconid and ichneumonid (Hymenoptera) parasitoid wasps of Lepidoptera from the Maltese Islands, Zootaxa 4567 (1), pp. 47-60 : 52

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.3
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B1916909-5696-44EF-AC8F-E41CDF1E6DA8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5944588
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287F8-FB51-B305-689E-993BFC5B8FBE
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Pimpla rufipes (Miller, 1759)
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Material examined: MALTA, Siġġiewi, xi.2005, 1 ♀, from pupa of Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus) ( Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae ), GD, DMC; Wied il-Għasel, 22. xi.2013, 1 ♀, from pupa of Orgyia trigotephras Boisduval ( Lepidoptera : Erebidae) which was collected on 13.xi.2013, MZ, DMC [parasitoids determined by Mark Shaw; hosts determined by Michael Zerafa].

Notes: Pimpla rufipes was recorded from the Maltese Islands by Schembri (1992) from pupae of Pieris brassicae , Pieris rapae and Papilio machaon melitensis . Mifsud (1997) recorded this species again from pupae of P. brassicae . This species is an idiobiont endoparasitoid that attacks a range of medium sized exposed or weakly cocooned Lepidoptera pupae ( Fitton et al., 1988, as P. hypochondriaca ).