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Species Enicospilus purgatus

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Short-tailed Ichneumonid Wasps (Ophioninae)

The systematics and biology of the Costa Rican species of parasitic wasps in the Thyreodon genus-group

By Ian D. Gaukd & DanielL H. Janzen
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 141(3): 297-351, 2004

Full title: The systematics and biology of the Costa Rican species of parasitic wasps in the Thyreodon genus-group (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

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Also includes notes on several North American species.

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 6 June, 2023 - 3:30pm

A survey of the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera:Ichneumonidae) of tropical Mesoamerica with special reference to the fauna of Costa Rica

By Ian D. Gauld
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 57(1): 1-309, 1988

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Includes notes for North America, including a distributional listing of Enicospilus from the US (p. 21) and overview of Enicospilus species groups (pp. 24-25). Note that our americanus complex is a subgroup of the included undulatus group.

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 10 January, 2023 - 11:05pm

The taxonomy and biogeography of Cuban Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

By José L. Fernández-Triana
Zootaxa, 1007: 1-60, 2005

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1007.1.1

Includes taxonomic notes on several species that also occur within our area.

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 10 January, 2023 - 9:37pm

The Ichneumon Flies of America Belonging to the Tribe Ophionini

By Charles W. Hooker
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, vol. 34, 1912

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 8 April, 2021 - 2:55am

Hybrid capture data unravel a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes)

By Seraina Klopfstein, Barbara Langille, Tamara Spasojevic, Gavin R. Broad, Steven J. B. Cooper, Andrew D. Austin, & Oliver Niehuis
Systematic Entomology, 44(2): 361-383, 2018

DOI: 10.1111/syen.12333

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 14 March, 2024 - 9:58pm

The pronunciation and derivation of the names of the genera and subgenera of the family Ichneumonidae found in North America…

By H. Pearson Hopper
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 61(4): 155-171, 1959

Full title: The pronunciation and derivation of the names of the genera and subgenera of the family Ichneumonidae found in North America north of Mexico.

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 11 January, 2022 - 1:32am

Replacement names in the family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera)

By Ahmet Ömer Koçak & Muhabbet Kemal
Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara miscellaneous papers, 147-148: 3-4, 2009

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 4 January, 2022 - 6:45pm

The North American Ichneumon-flies of the Tribes Labenini, Rhyssini, Xoridini, Odontomerini, and Phytodietini

By S.A. Rohwer
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 57: 405-474, 1920

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 1 July, 2021 - 9:39pm

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