Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: genera Apechthis Förster, Itoplectis Förster and Pimpla Fabricius
Author
Khalaim, Andrey I.
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Author
Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique
0000-0003-4305-6568
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4305 - 6568
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5.
Pimpla croceipes
Cresson, 1874
(
Fig. 29
)
Pimpla croceipes
Cresson 1874: 398
[
♀
♂
(ANSP),
Mexico
,
Veracruz
,
Orizaba
].
References.
Cameron 1886: 266
[
Mexico
(
Veracruz
),
Guatemala
,
Costa Rica
,
Panama
].
Morley 1914: 63
[remarks;
Mexico
(
Guerrero
),
Guatemala
,
Panama
,
Costa Rica
].
Cresson 1916:26
[
lectotype
“603”(ANSP) designated;
Mexico
,
Veracruz
].
Townes & Townes 1966: 25
[
Coccygomimus
; catalogue;
Mexico
].
Porter 1970a: 87
[
Coccygomimus
; description;
Colombia
,
Ecuador
].
Maes 1989: 33
[catalogue;
Nicaragua
].
Gauld 1991: 523
[description;
Mexico
(
Guerrero
),
Guatemala
,
Costa Rica
,
Panama
].
Gauld
et al
. 1998: 140
[in key;
Costa Rica
].
Hernández-Aguilar
et al
. 1999: 36
[
Mexico
(
Tamaulipas
)].
Díaz 2000: 248
[
Venezuela
].
Ruíz-Cancino
et al
. 2002: 645
[checklist;
Mexico
].
Gauld
et al
. 2002: 60
[
El Salvador
].
Hernández-Aguilar
et al
. 2005: 470
[
Mexico
(
Tamaulipas
)].
Ruíz-Cancino
et al
. 2010: 66
[checklist;
Mexico
(
Tamaulipas
)].
Veijalainen
et al
. 2011
[DNA barcoding; separated from
P
.
molesta
;
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
Costa Rica
,
Venezuela
].
Sánchez-García
et al
. 2015: 828
[checklist;
Mexico
(
Oaxaca
)].
Khalaim
et al
. 2018: 23
[
Mexico
(
Veracruz
)].
Remarks.
The species was described from
syntype
female(s) and male(s) (Cresson 1974: 398); later the specimen under number “603” was designated as a
lectotype
, but its sex was not mentioned (
Cresson 1916: 26
); and only in 1966, Townes (
Townes & Townes 1966: 25
) recorded that the
lectotype
is female.
FIGURES 28–31.
Pimpla chamela
sp. nov.
, female: 28—habitus (without head and wings), lateral.
Pimpla croceipes
, female: 29—habitus (without antennae and wing apices), lateral.
Pimpla croceiventris
, male: 30—habitus (without antennae and wing apices), lateral; 31—mesosoma, dorsal.
Unfortunately, we could not confidently separate
P
.
croceipes
and
P
.
molesta
on the basis of morphological characters given by
Veijalainen
et al
. (2011)
. Almost all examined Mexican specimens have subtegular ridge black or only dark reddish brown, fore coxa black or black and yellow, second tergite sparsely to closely punctate (in females), and transverse groove on the second tergite situated slightly behind its middle. Only
one female
from Lagos de Montebello,
Chiapas
, has subtegular ridge conspicuously yellow marked and fore coxa 50×50 yellow and black. All examined specimens from
Mexico
are considered here as
P
.
croceipes
(s. lato) but further investigation of this material is required. See also
Remarks
section under
P
.
molesta
.
Material examined.
MEXICO
.
Tamaulipas
:
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
Cd
.
Victoria, Cañón de la Libertad
,
800 m
,
13.xii.1987
, coll.
R. Meza
V.
1 ♀
(
UAT
) same locality and collector,
1000 m
,
5.iii.1988
.
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
15 km
SSW of
Cd.
Victoria, El Madroño
,
16–18.xii.2008
, coll.
A.I. Khalaim.
1 ♂
(
UAT
) same locality,
20.v.1984
, coll.
H. Ruíz
C.
1 ♀
(
UAT
) same locality and collector,
29.i.1985
.
4 ♀
(
UAT
) same locality,
23.xii.1987
, coll.
H. & E. Ruíz
C., S. Arrambide.
3 ♀
,
2 ♂
(
UAT
) same locality,
1400 m
,
20.i.2000
, coll.
E. Ruíz
C. & J.A. Martínez Ramirez.
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
Tula
,
1000 m
,
7.xi.2007
, coll.
E. Ruíz
C.
2 ♀
(
UAT
)
Tula
,
Ejido Acahuales
,
1400 m
, oak-forest,
Malaise trap
, 27.viii–10.ix and
29.x–12.xi.2016
, coll.
E. Ruíz
C. & J.M. Coronado B.
1 ♂
(
UAT
)
Gómez Farías
,
v.1992
, coll.
J.M. Coronado
B.
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
Gómez Farías
,
Altas Cimas
,
Malaise trap
,
4–11.xi.2000
, coll.
D.R. Kasparyan.
3 ♂
(
UAT
)
Gómez Farías
,
Canindo
,
Malaise trap
,
20–21.vii.1994
, coll.
J.B. Wooley.
2 ♂
(
UAT
) same locality and collector,
28–30.vii.1993
.
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
Gómez Farías
,
Río El Cielo
,
3.iii.1989
, coll.
R. Thompson.
San Luis Potosí
:
1 ♂
(
UAT
)
Xilitla
,
Las Pozas
(park),
21–23.xii.2008
, coll.
A.I. Khalaim.
Querétaro
:
2 ♀
(
UAQ
)
Jalpan de Serra
,
4.x.2013
.
1 ♀
(
UAQ
)
Pinal de Amoles
,
2.x.2013
.
Veracruz
:
3 ♀
,
6 ♂
(
UAT
)
SW of Xalapa
, park near
Institute de Ecología
, 19°30.768’N, 96°56.349’,
1260 m
,
17–18.ii.2009
, coll.
A.I. Khalaim.
5 ♀
,
4 ♂
(
3 ♀
and
2 ♂
in UAT,
2 ♀
and
2 ♂
in
ZISP
) same data, but
12–14.iv.2014
.
1 ♂
(
EMEC
)
Fortín
de las
Flores
,
25.xii.1963
, coll.
C.A. Toschi
&
M.J. Tauber.
Morelos
:
1 ♀
(
UAT
) N of
Cuernavaca
,
Chamilpa
,
20.ix.1991
, coll.
G. Peña.
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
Tepoztlán
,
18°59’51”N
,
99°05’55”W
,
1490 m
,
5.iii.2010
, coll.
E. Ruíz
C.
2 ♀
(
CIUM
)
Tlaquiltenango
,
5 km
W of Santiopa
,
18.44701°N
,
98.98758°W
,
1005 m
,
5.x.2013
, coll.
J.A. Hernández
et al
.
Oaxaca
:
1 ♀
,
2 ♂
(
UNAM
)
Santiago Comaltepec
,
La Esperanza, N
17.02661º, W 96.36950º,
1600 m
,
Malaise trap
,
1.vii–12.viii.2008
, coll.
A. Lopez García.
2 ♀
(
UNAM
)
Santiago Comaltepec
, N 17.58429º, W 96.49398º,
2332 m
,
6.vi.2009
, coll.
H. Clebsch
&
A. Zaldívar
R.
3 ♂
(
TAMU
)
15.1 mi.
N of San Gabriel Mixtepec
,
3850 ft.
(=
1175 m
),
Highway
131,
11.vii.1987
, coll.
R. Wharton.
Chiapas
:
10 ♀
(
UANL
,
UAT
)
Reserva El Triunfo
,
15 km
S of La Trinitaria
,
Palo Gordo
,
20–22.vii.1997
, coll.
A. González
H.
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
50 km
SSE of Comitán
,
National Park Lagos de Montebello
,
16°06.223’N
,
91°44.072’W
,
1450 m
, mixed forest with pines,
5–6.iii.2013
, coll.
A.I. Khalaim.
1 ♂
(
UAT
)
50 km
ESE of Comitán
,
National Park Lagos de Montebello
,
16.106551
,
-91.705158
,
1500 m
,
8.viii.2021
, coll.
A.I. Khalaim.
1 ♀
(
UAT
)
40 km
E of Comitán
,
National Park Lagos de Montebello
,
16.132282
,
-91.729243
,
9.viii.2021
, coll.
A.I. Khalaim.
1 ♂
(
TAMU
)
Lagunas de Montebello
[National Park],
Laguna Cinco Lagos
,
11.viii.1990
, coll.
J.C. Schaffner.
1 ♂
(
TAMU
)
Reserva El Triunfo
,
Sendero Palo Gordo
,
6400 ft.
(=
1950 m
), screen sweep,
21.vii.1977
, coll.
J.B. Woolley.
1 ♀
,
4 ♂
(
TAMU
)
Reserva El Triunfo
,
6620 ft.
(=
2020 m
),
14–23.vii.1997
, coll.
J.B. Woolley.
1 ♀
(
TAMU
)
4 km
W of San Cristóbal
[de las Casas],
San
Felipe,
2200 m
, oak-grass woodlands,
24–28.viii.1990
, coll.
R.W. Jones.
1 ♀
(
TAMU
)
4 km
W of San Cristóbal
[de las Casas],
Reserva Huitepec
,
7800 ft.
(=
2380 m
), cloud forest,
Malaise trap
,
5.x–25.xi.1990
, coll.
R.W. Jones.
2 ♀
,
2 ♂
(
TAMU
) Municipio
San Cristóbal
,
Reserva Huitepec
,
Malaise trap
,
8–28.viii.1990
, coll.
R.W. Jones.
PANAMA
.
1 ♂
(
TAMU
)
Chiriquí Prov.
,
Lagunas del Volcán
,
5 km
SW of Volcán
,
8°45’52”N
,
82°40’33”W
,
4220 ft.
(=
1285 m
),
30.vii.1999
, coll.
J.B. Woolley.
Distribution.
Mexico
(
Tamaulipas
,
San Luis Potosí
,
Querétaro
,
Veracruz
,
Morelos
,
Guerrero
,
Oaxaca
,
Chiapas
),
Guatemala
,
Honduras
,
El Salvador
,
Costa Rica
,
Panama
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Venezuela
.
Biology.
Gauld (1991)
noticed that the colour pattern of
P
.
croceipes
is the same as that of some very common sympatric species of
Auplopus
Spinola
(
Hymenoptera
:
Pompilidae
) and, in flight,
P
.
croceipes
may easily be confused with these species. Moreover,
P
.
croceipes
, as far as
P
.
molesta
, 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
).