Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Ephialtes genus-group
Author
Khalaim, Andrey I.
0000-0003-1802-2649
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. & Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
akhalaim@gmail.com
Author
Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique
0000-0003-4305-6568
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-29
5169
3
201
251
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5169.3.1
2cbc0f84-2011-4e7c-868f-6c305d5f3308
1175-5326
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3.
Scambus aplopappi
(
Ashmead, 1890
)
(
Fig. 38
)
Pimpla aplopappi
Ashmead 1890: 446
[
holotype
♀
(USNM),
USA
,
California
, Los Angeles, ex lepidopterous gall
on
Aplopappus squamosa
, coll.
D.W. Coquillett
].
Synonym:
Scambus evetrivorus
Rohwer, 1915
(
Townes & Townes 1951: 186
).
References.
Rohwer 1915: 225
[
S. evetrivorus
(descriprion);
USA
(
New Mexico
); host].
Townes & Townes 1951: 186
[catalogue;
S. evetrivorus
(syn.)].
Townes & Townes 1960: 63
[description;
USA
(west and south-west); host].
Frankie & Koehler 1971: 957
[
USA
(
California
); host].
Carlson 1979: 323
[catalogue;
Scambus
(
Scambus
)
].
Material examined.
MEXICO
.
Baja California
:
1 ♀
(
UCR
) El Consuelo Dunes,
11–12.vi.1979
, coll.
J
.D. Pinto
.
Distribution.
USA (west and south-west),
Mexico
(
Baja California
).
First record from
Mexico
.
Biology.
Reared from various lepidopterous hosts in the
USA
. Recorded from
Recurvaria milleri
Busck
,
Syncopacma nigrella
(Chambers)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Gelechiidae
) and
Rhyacionia
spp. (Tortricidae)
(
Townes & Townes 1960
).
Type
of
S. evetrivorus
was reared from
Rhyacionia bushnelli
(Busck)
infesting
Pinus ponderosa
Douglas ex C. Lawson
(Rowher 1915;
Townes & Townes 1960
). Reared from cones containing cypress bark moth
Cydia cupressana
(Kearfott) (Tortricidae)
and other occasional cone invaders (
Frankie & Koehler 1971
).