Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Ephialtes genus-group
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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.
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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
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2022-07-29
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2.
Calliephialtes grapholithae
(
Cresson, 1890
)
(
Figs 8
,
13, 14
)
Pimpla grapholithae
Cresson 1890: 50
[
♀
♂
(ANSP);
USA
:
Missouri
,
Pennsylvania
,
ex
Grapholitha caryae
(=
Acrobasis caryae
)].
Synonym:
Pimpla xanthothorax
Ashmead, 1890
(
Cushman 1915: 133
)
.
References.
Morley 1914: 13
[
C. xanthothorax
; remarks].
Cushman 1915: 133
[
C
.
xanthothorax
(syn.)].
Cresson 1916: 34
[
lectotype
♂
(
ANSP
) designated;
USA
,
Pennsylvania
].
Nickels
et al
. 1950: 12
, 20 [host, biology].
Nickels 1951
[
USA
(
Texas
); host].
Townes & Townes 1951: 188
[catalogue].
Townes & Townes 1960: 85
[description;
Canada
(
Ontario
), eastern and southeastern
USA
; host].
Allen 1962: 71
[host].
Finlayson 1967: 1247
[
Canada
(
Ontario
); host; description of larva].
Phillips & Proctor 1970: 1396
[
Canada
(
Ontario
); host].
Neunzig 1972
[revision of
Acrobasis
spp. (Pyralidae)
; host].
Plakidas 1978: 222
[
USA
(
Pennsylvania
); host].
Carlson 1979: 326
[catalogue].
Freeman & Berisford 1979: 511
[
USA
(
Georgia
); host].
Martinat & Wallner 1980: 46
[
USA
(
Michigan
); host].
Gunasena & Harris 1988
[host].
Yonce
et al
. 1996
[host].
Barajas 1997
[
Mexico
(
Coahuila
); host].
Brenner
et al
. 2002
[Hawaii; host].
Oboyski
et al
. 2004
[Hawaii; host].
Pinson-Domínguez
et al
. 2005
[
Mexico
(
Tamaulipas
); host].
Material examined.
MEXICO
.
Coahuila
:
1 ♀
,
1 ♂
(
UAT
) Saltillo,
21.i.2002
[collector unknown].
1 ♀
(
UAT
) Los Lirios, Malaise trap,
2.vi.1990
, coll.
M
. Perales.
1 ♀
(
UAT
) “P,
17.x.1986
, El
M
” [illegible text].
Tamaulipas
:
Jaumave, ex barrenador de nogal, coll. O. Pinson (all in
UAT
):
9.ix.2004
(
3 ♀
),
23.ix.2004
(
8 ♀
,
9 ♂
),
7.x.2004
(
1 ♀
),
28.x.2004
(
11 ♀
,
16 ♂
).
1 ♀
(
UAT
) same locality and collector, árbol de nogal,
20.viii.2005
.
1 ♀
(
ZISP
) Cd. Victoria, Las Brisas, ex
Citrus sinensis
,
5.ix.2005
, coll. O. Pinson.
USA
.
New York
:
1 ♀
(
AEIC
) Youngstown, ex
Curculio
larva in hickory-nut husk, 1944, coll. L.L. Pechuman.
1 ♀
(
INHS
) Batavia,
8.vi.1913
, coll. H.H. Kaight.
Illinois
:
1 ♀
(
INHS
) Wadsworth,
10.vi.1943
, coll. Ross & Sanderson.
Kentucky
:
1 ♀
(
AEIC
) Golden Pond, Malaise trap,
v.1965
.
South Carolina
:
2 ♀
(
AEIC
) Pickens Co., Wattacoo,
17.v and 14.vi.1959
, coll. G.F. Townes.
Texas
:
1 ♂
(
TAMU
) Montgomery Co., Jones State Forest,
8 mi.
S
of Conroe, Malaise trap,
13–19.iv.1987
, coll.
R
. Wharton.
1 ♀
,
1 ♂
(
AEIC
) Fredericksburg,
5–17.v.1988
, coll. H. &
M
. Townes.
3 ♀
(
AEIC
) Kerrville,
4–8.v.1988
, coll. H. &
M
. Townes.
1 ♀
(
AEIC
) Fredericksburg,
17.v.1988
, H. &
M
. Townes.
Alabama
:
1 ♀
(
AEIC
) Gulf Shores,
23.iv.1968
, coll. H. &
M
. Townes.
Florida
:
1 ♂
(
UAT
) Monticello, Jafferson, University of Florida,
16–24.iii.2001
, coll.
R
. Mizell.
1 ♂
(
AEIC
) Gainesville,
3.iv.1986
.
Distribution.
Canada
(
Ontario
),
USA
(east and southeast),
Mexico
(
Coahuila
,
Tamaulipas
).
Biology.
Reared from a large variety of caterpillars in galls, nuts, fruits and stems in the
USA
and
Canada
. Many records are from
Acrobasis
spp. (Pyralidae)
and
Cydia caryana
(Tortricidae)
feeding in fruits of the pecan
Carya illinoinensis
(Wangenh.) K. Koch (Juglandaceae)
.
FIGURES 8–12.
Calliephialtes grapholithae
, ♀ (Tamaulipas):
8
—habitus (without one antenna and ovipositor), lateral.
Calliephialtes sittenfeldae
, ♀ (Tamaulipas):
9—
habitus, lateral;
10
—metasomal tergites 1–3, dorsal.
Calliephialtes thurberiae
, ♀ (Tamaulipas):
11
—habitus, lateral;
12
—apex of ovipositor, lateral.
Registered as parasitoid of
Acrobasis betulella
Hulst
(=
hebescella
Hulst) (
Townes & Townes 1960
;
Finlayson 1967
;
Neunzig 1972: 100
), the hickory shoot borer
A. caryae
Grote
(
Hamilton 1890
;
Nickels
et al
. 1950
;
Allen 1962
;
Finlayson 1967
),
A. carpinivorella
Neunzig (
Neunzig 1972: 92
)
, the pecan nursery casemaker
A. caryivorella
Ragonot
(
Nickels 1951
;
Finlayson 1967
;
Neunzig 1972: 75
),
A. comptoniella
Hulst (
Neunzig 1972: 111
)
,
A. coryliella
Duar (
Neunzig 1972: 89
)
,
A. elyi
Neunzig (
Neunzig 1972: 37
)
,
A. exsulella
(Zeller) (
Neunzig 1972: 54
)
, the leaf crumpler?
A. indigenella
(Zeller)
(
Finlayson 1967
; probably this record applies to
A. juglandis
, not to
A. indigenella
—see
Neunzig 1972: 23
), the pecan leaf casebearer
A. juglandis
(LeBaron)
(
Townes & Townes 1960
;
Allen 1962
;
Finlayson 1967
;
Martinat & Wallner 1980
), the pecan nut casebearer
A. nuxvorella
Neunzig
(
Neunzig 1972: 33
, 34;
Gunasena & Harris 1988: 109
), and the alder tubemaker moth
A. rubrifasciella
Packard
(
Townes & Townes 1960
;
Finlayson 1967
;
Neunzig 1972: 106
). Some records from
A. betulella
,
A. caryae
and
A. caryvorella
published before
1970 may
actually belong to
A. nuxvorella
(
Neunzig 1972: 32
)
.
Reared from the hickory shuckworm moth
Cydia caryana
(Fitch)
(
Nickels
et al
. 1950
;
Townes & Townes 1960
;
Allen 1962
;
Gunasena & Harris 1988: 108
;
Yonce
et al
. 1996
),
C. pomonella
L. (
Tortricidae
) (
Allen 1962
),
Epiblema strenuana
(Walker) (
Allen 1962
)
,
E. scudderiana
(Clemens) (Tortricidae)
(
Plakidas 1978
), the oriental fruit moth
Grapholita molesta
(Busck) (Tortricidae)
(
Townes & Townes 1960
;
Allen 1962
;
Phillips & Proctor 1970
), the nantucket pine tip moth
Rhyacionia frustrana
(Scudder
in
Comstock) (
Tortricidae
) on
Pinus taeda
L. (
Pinaceae
) (
Freeman & Berisford 1979
), the evergreen bagworm
Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis
(Haworth) (Psychidae)
(
Townes & Townes 1960
),
Meskea dyspteraria
Grote (Thyrididae)
(
Townes & Townes 1960
;
Allen 1962
) and the ceanothus stem gall moth
Periploca ceanothiella
(Cosens) (Cosmopterigidae)
(
Townes & Townes 1960
).
Reared from endemic
Cydia
spp.
on
Sophora chrysophylla
(Salisb.) Seem. (Fabaceae)
in
Hawaii
, where it was probably accidentally introduced to (
Brenner
et al
. 2002
;
Oboyski
et al
. 2004
).
Besides the
Lepidoptera
,
C. grapholithae
was reported as a parasitoid of
Conotrachelus nenuphar
(Herbst)
(
Coleoptera
:
Curculionidae
) (
Townes & Townes 1960
) and unknown host in a
Phylloxera
gall (
Hemiptera
:
Phylloxeridae
) (
Townes & Townes 1960
). In the examined material from the
AEIC
,
one female
was recorded as a parasitoid of
Curculio
larva from the hickory-nut husk in
New York
.
Following host records require confirmation:
Carmenta texana
(Edwards) (Sesiidae)
(
Townes & Townes 1960
) and
Euura salicisnodus
Walsh
(=
s-nodus
Walsh) (
Hymenoptera
:
Tenthredinidae
) (
Allen 1962: 118
).
Recorded as a secondary parasitoid of
Bassus acrobasidis
Cushman
(
Hymenoptera
:
Braconidae
) in
Acrobasis nuxvorella
Neunzig
(
Nickels
et al
. 1950: 20
;
Allen 1962
).
In
Mexico
,
C. grapholithae
was reared from
Acrobasis nuxvorella
and
Cydia caryana
in
Coahuila
and
Tamaulipas
(
Barajas 1997
;
Pinson-Domínguez
et al
. 2005
).