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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Pimplinae » Pimplini

Tribe Pimplini

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Ichneumonid - Pimpla pedalis - female Ichneumon Wasp - Pimpla - female Ichneumon - Pimpla - male Orange wasp - Theronia atalantae - female Ichneumon ? - Pimpla - female Wasp oviposting in bag worm - Itoplectis conquisitor - female Late fall ichneumonoid - Pimpla - female Neotheronia bicincta? - Neotheronia bicincta - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)
Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumonid Wasps)
Subfamily Pimplinae
Tribe Pimplini
Explanation of Names
Wesmael, 1845
Numbers
38 spp.(1) in 5 genera north of Mexico(2); 14 genera worldwide(2). Subdivided into 2 genus-groups:
Pimpla genus-group
1. Apechthis (5 spp.)
2. Itoplectis (9 spp.)
3. Pimpla (20 spp.)
Theronia genus-group
4. Neotheronia (2 spp.)
5. Theronia (2 spp.)
Range
worldwide(2)
Food
Species of Pimplini are usually internal parasites of pupae of Lepidoptera, but species of Itoplectis and, to a lesser extent, Pimpla sometimes parasitize Symphyta or Ichneumonoidea which spin cocoons in leaf litter or exposed situations.
Works Cited
1.Genera Ichneumonorum Nearcticae (2014)
2.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae
Contributed by John F. Carr on 28 September, 2009 - 7:06pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Bob Carlson, PaleoJon, behmrachel
Last updated 7 August, 2021 - 6:32pm

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