2. Hymenoepimecis tedfordi Gauld, 1991

Hymenoepimecis tedfordi Gauld 1991: 340 [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).