Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 2572 No. 1: 20 Aug. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-08-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2572.1.3
Page range: 48–56
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 1

Taxonomy of Pseudopimpla Habermehl (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) with description of a new species

Instituto de Investigación de Biodiversidad CIBIO, Universidad de Alicante, Ap. Correos 99, 03080-Alicante, SPAIN
Instituto de Investigación de Biodiversidad CIBIO, Universidad de Alicante, Ap. Correos 99, 03080-Alicante, SPAIN
Hymenoptera Synonymy morphometry hosts key Iberian Peninsula

Abstract

Pseudopimpla propodeumpunctata sp. nov., collected in Spain, is described. Differences and similarities between both West-Palaearctic species, P. algerica and P. pygidiator, were checked by mean of morphometric survey and multivariate analysis. The morphometric results showed no differences between both species, and as a consequence they were synonymized. A key for the world species of Pseudopimpla is provided. A new host, Hartigia nigra (Harris) (Hymenoptera, Cephidae) and two new host food plants (Rosa sp and Rubus ulmifolius Schott) are reported for P. algerica. Pseudopimpla is recorded for the first time from the Iberian Peninsula and Serbia.

References

  1. Bruzzese, E. (1982) Observations of the biology of Pseudopimpla pygidiator Seyrig (Hym. Ichneumonidae), a parasite of the blackberry stem boring sawfly Hartigia albomaculatus (Stein) (Hym, Cephidae). Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine, 118, 249–252.

    Gauld, I. (2000) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 3. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 63, Gainesville, 453 pp.

    Gauld, I & Bolton, B. (1988) The Hymenoptera. Oxford University Press and British Museum (Natural History), Oxford, 332 pp.

    Harris, R.A. (1979) A glossary of surface sculpturing. Occasional Papers in Entomology, 28, State of California, Department of Food and Agriculture, 31 pp.

    He, J. & Chen, X.X. (1990) Descriptions of two new species of Pseudopimpla Habermehl (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia, 12 (2), 141–144.

    Hills, M. (1978) On ratios – a response to Atchley, Gaskins and Anderson. Systematic Zoology, 27 (1), 61–62.

    Jambu, M. (1991) Exploratory and Multivariate Data Analysis. Academic Press, INC. San Diego, USA, 474 pp.

    Matsumoto, R. & Saigusa, T. (1992) Biology of Pseudopimpla glabripropodeum He et Chen (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) with description of final instar larva and redescription of adults. Entomological Science, 2 (4), 467–471.

    Scaramozzino, P.L. & Currado, I. (1984) Note biosistematiche sul genere Pseudopimpla Habermehl (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Annali della Facolta di Scienze Agrarie della Università degli studi di Torino, 13, 357–370.

    Townes, H. (1969) The Genera of Ichneumonidae I. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 11, Michigan (U.S.A.), 300 pp.

    Yu, D.S., van Achterberg, K. & Horstmann, K. (2005) World Ichneumonoidea 2004. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. CD/DVD. TAXAPAD. Vancouver, Canada. http://www.taxapad.com [04/03/2008]