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Issue: Vol. 4058 No. 2: 16 Dec. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-12-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.2.2
Page range: 175–194
Abstract views: 50
PDF downloaded: 1

The Brazilian Amazonian species of Hymenoepimecis Viereck, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae)

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Brazil.
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Entomologia, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, Brazil.
Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos – UFSCar, Brazil.
Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brazileira – UNILAB, Brazil.
Zoological Museum, University of Turku, Finland.
Zoological Museum, University of Turku, Finland.
Hymenoptera Koinobiont neotropic new species Polysphincta genus-group parasitoid rain forest taxonomy

Abstract

Six new species of Hymenoepimecis Viereck are described from Brazilian Amazonian tropical forest: H. amazonensis sp. n., H. duckensis sp. n., H. kleini sp. n., H. manauara sp. n., H. ribeiroi sp. n. and H. uberensis sp. n., and male genitalia is described for the first time for the genus. In addition, we provide an identification key, diagnosis and distributional records for Brazilian Amazonian species of Hymenoepimecis. By describing these new species we aim to draw further attention to the considerable species richness of the genus in Amazonia.