Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Ephialtes genus-group
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. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4305 - 6568
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-07-29
5169
3
201
251
journal article
112030
10.11646/zootaxa.5169.3.1
2cbc0f84-2011-4e7c-868f-6c305d5f3308
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1.
Calliephialtes ferrugineus
Cushman, 1940
Calliephialtes ferrugineus
Cushman 1940: 362
[
holotype
♀
(USNM),
Puerto Rico
,
Boqueron
, ex
Pectinophora gossypiella
,
20.v.1938
, coll.
K.A. Bartlett
;
♀
].
References.
Townes & Townes 1951: 188
[catalogue].
Wolcott 1951: 765
[
Puerto Rico
; host].
Townes & Townes 1960: 86
[description;
USA
(
Florida
),
Cuba
,
Puerto Rico
; host].
Townes & Townes 1966: 11
[catalogue].
Gauld 1991: 187
[description;
Costa Rica
,?
Jamaica
].
Carlson 1979: 326
[catalogue].
Gauld
et al
. 1998: 21
[
Costa Rica
].
González-Moreno & Bordera 2012: 35
[
Mexico
(
Yucatán
)].
Material examined.
USA
.
Florida
:
2 ♀
(
AEIC
)
Miami
,
16.iii.1966
, coll.
H. & M. Townes.
1 ♀
(
AEIC
)
50 km
SW of Miami
, “
UadeCo
;
ChekikaSt. RecArea
”,
3.iii–28.iv.1985
, coll.
S. & J. Peck
et al
.
1 ♂
(
AEIC
)
Alachua Co.
,
Gainesville
, ex
Clydonopteron tecomae
Riley
(det.
D.H. Habeck
),
29.x.1962
, coll.
D.H. Habeck.
Distribution.
USA
(
Florida
),
Mexico
(
Yucatán
),
Cuba
,
Puerto Rico
,?
Jamaica
,
Costa Rica
.
Biology.
The
holotype
and
paratype
were reared from the pink bollworm
Pectinophora gossypiella
(Saunders)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Gelechiidae
) in
Puerto Rico
(
Cushman 1940: 362
). One male examined in the AEIC was reared from
Clydonopteron tecomae
Riley
(
Lepidoptera
:
Pyralidae
) in Florida.
Wolcott (1951: 765)
reported this species as a solitary parasitoid of a shoot borer
Hypsipyla grandella
(Zeller)
(
Lepidoptera
:
Pyralidae
) in
Cedrela odorata
L. (
Meliaceae
) in
Puerto Rico
.