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Tribe Pimplini

Ichneumonidae - Apechthis - female Ichneu..? - Pimpla sanguinipes - female aspen hymenopt  - Itoplectis conquisitor - female Pimplinae? - female ichneumonid 1 - Pimpla - female ichneumon wasp - Pimpla - female Black and Orange - Marigold Elementary School garry Oak Meadow - Pimpla Ichneumonidae, on snowpack - Pimpla
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Theroniini was re-split from Pimplini by Klopfstein et al. (2018).(1)
Explanation of Names
Wesmael, 1845
Numbers
34 spp. in 3 genera in our area;(2) 8 genera worldwide(3).
1. Apechthis (5 spp.)
2. Itoplectis (9 spp.)
3. Pimpla (20 spp.)
Identification
"This view shows the white stripe on the facial orbits, which is another character distinguishing female Apecthis from other Pimplini. In the males, the face is largely or completely white. Less noticeable, but visible upon careful scrutiny of the photo, is the indentation of the eye at the level of the antennal socket. This indentation is present in Apecthis and Itoplectis but not in Pimpla". — Bob Carlson

         Apecthis                  Itoplectis                    Pimpla
Range
worldwide(3)
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.Hybrid capture data unravel a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes)
Seraina Klopfstein, Barbara Langille, Tamara Spasojevic, Gavin R. Broad, Steven J. B. Cooper, Andrew D. Austin, & Oliver Niehuis. 2018. Systematic Entomology, 44(2): 361-383.
2.Genera Ichneumonorum Nearcticae (2014)
3.Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae