Pimpla molesta Smith, 1879

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 : 474-475

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.4.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5726474

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scientific name

Pimpla molesta Smith, 1879
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10. Pimpla molesta Smith, 1879 View in CoL View at ENA

Pimpla molesta Smith 1879: 229 View in CoL [holotype ♀ (NHMUK), Costa Rica, San José Prov. , Volcán Irazú, 2000–2300 m, coll. Rogers].

References. Cameron 1886: 266 [modesta (misspelling); syn. of P. croceipes View in CoL ]. Gauld 1991: 523 [syn. of P. croceipes View in CoL ]. Veijalainen et al. 2011 [ex synonym; DNA barcoding; Mexico (Guerrero), Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama].

Remarks. Pimpla molesta was synonymized to P. croceipes by Cameron (1886) but recent molecular and morphological investigation ( Veijalainen et al. 2011) demonstrated that actually these are two distinct species. The two species were separated by DNA barcoding and minor differences in morphology and colouration. Thus, many earlier records of P. croceipes actually may belong to P. molesta . Examined specimens from Guatemala, Honduras and Panama well correspond with P. molesta , but most Mexican specimens share characters of both species, and therefore all Mexican specimens are preliminarily treated here as P. croceipes . See also Remarks section under P. croceipes .

Material examined. GUATEMALA. 1 ♂ ( AEIC) San Jose Pinala , 1800 m, 2.viii.1987, coll. M.J. Sharkey. 1 ♀ ( AEIC) Sacatepequez, near Antigua , 1700 m, 23.xi.1986, coll. M.J. Sharkey. HONDURAS. 1 ♀ ( AEIC) Cerro Monserrat , 1800 m, 30.v.1994, coll. H. & A. Howden. 2 ♀ ( AEIC) Francisco Morazán, 30 km E of Tegucigalpa, Cerro Uyuca , 1800 m, 27.v.1994, coll. H. & A. Howden. 1 ♀, 1 ♂ ( FSCA) Francisco Morazán, Cerro Uyuca , El Zamorano, 1900 m, cloud forest, Malaise trap, 10–20.viii.1992, coll. C. Porter & L. Stange. COSTA RICA. 1 ♀ ( INHS) Puntarenas Prov., San Vito de Java, Las Cruces, 1200 m, Jardín Botánico , 5.viii.1986, coll. M.E. Irwin. PANAMA. 1 ♀ ( TAMU) Chiriquí Prov., Reserva La Fortuna, Estación Biológica , 4–8.viii.1999, coll. A. Gillogly & J. Woolley.

Distribution. Mexico (Guerrero), Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama.

Biology. Pimpla molesta , as far as P. croceipes , seems to share a mimicry pattern with a Lissonota species ( Ichneumonidae : Banchinae) being involved in mimicry complexes characterized by black colouration with lower body parts being bright yellow ( Veijalainen et al. 2011: 66).

AEIC

American Entomological Institute

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey

TAMU

Texas A&M University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Ichneumonidae

Genus

Pimpla

Loc

Pimpla molesta Smith, 1879

Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique 2021
2021
Loc

Pimpla molesta

Smith, F. 1879: 229
1879
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