Pimpla caerulea Brullé, 1846

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 : 466

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7526569
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scientific name	Pimpla caerulea Brullé, 1846
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Pimpla caerulea Brullé, 1846 View in CoL

Pimpla caerulea Brullé 1846: 101 View in CoL [holotype ♀ (MNHN), Brazil, “prov. de Rio-Grande ”].

References. Morley 1914: 70 [ Mexico (Veracruz), Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil]. Townes & Townes 1966: 24 [ Coccygomimus caeruleus caeruleus ; catalogue;? Mexico]. Porter 1970a: 54 [ Coccygomimus caeruleus ; description; distribution in South America; host]. Ruíz-Cancino & Tejada 1986: 39 [ Coccygomimus caeruleus ; Mexico (Nuevo León)]. Gauld 1991: 522 [notes on distribution: South America]. Díaz 2000: 248 [ Venezuela]. Kumagai & Graf 2000: 162 [ Brazil (Paraná)]. Kumagai & Graf 2002: 450 [ Brazil (Paraná)]. Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002: 645 [checklist; Mexico]. Sánchez-García et al. 2015: 828 [checklist; Mexico (Oaxaca)]. Pádua et al. 2020: 29 [diagnosis; Uruguay].

Remarks. This is a South American species probably extending to Panama. Records of this species from Mexico ( Ruíz-Cancino & Tejada 1986; Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002; Sánchez-García et al. 2015) actually belong to P. caeruleata .

Distribution. South America.

Biology. Parasitoid of the moth Alabama argillacea (Hübner) ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ), pest of cotton, at Tucumán, Argentina ( Townes & Townes 1966: 24; Porter 1970a: 62).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hymenoptera
Family	Ichneumonidae
Genus	Pimpla