Pimplinae

Pimplinae
Apechthis rufata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Subfamily:
Wesmael, 1845

Pimplinae are a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.[1][2][3]

Pimplinae are parasitoids of Holometabola, often the pupae of Lepidoptera. Various species parasitize the egg sacs and adults of spiders.[4] Those species that parasitize eggs are ectoparasitic idiobionts. Females perforate the silk of the egg sacs and lay their egg(s) directly onto the surface of the eggs within them. After hatching, the parasitoid larvae feed externally on the eggs and kill most of the eggs in the process.[5]

Pimplinae are generally sturdy black insects with orange markings. The first tergite is box-like with the spiracle anterior to the middle.

List of genera

There are 72 genera of Pimplinae listed below.

Tribe Delomeristini Hellén, 1915

Tribe Ephialtini Hellén, 1915

Pseudopimpla genus-group

  • Pseudopimpla Habermehl, 1917

Alophosternum genus-group

  • Alophosternum Cushman, 1933
  • Pachymelos Baltazar, 1961

Camptotypus genus-group

  • Camptotypus Kriechbaumer, 1889
  • Clydonium Townes, 1966
  • Hemipimpla Saussure, 1892
  • Odontopimpla Cameron, 1886
  • Parvipimpla Gauld, 1984
  • Zonopimpla Ashmead, 1900

Ephialtes genus-group

  • Afrephialtes Benoit, 1963
  • Anastelgis Townes, 1960
  • Calliephialtes Ashmead, 1900
  • Dolichomitus Smith, 1877
  • Endromopoda Hellén, 1939
  • Ephialtes Gravenhorst, 1829
  • Exeristes Förster, 1869
  • Exestuberis Wang & Yue, 1995
  • Flavopimpla Betrem, 1932
  • Fredegunda Fitton, Shaw & Gauld, 1988
  • Leptopimpla Townes, 1961
  • Liotryphon Ashmead, 1900
  • Paraperithous Haupt, 1954
  • Pimplaetus Seyrig, 1932
  • Scambus Hartig, 1838
  • Townesia Ozols, 1962
  • Umanella Gauld, 1991
  • Xanthephialtes Cameron, 1906
  • Xanthophenax Saussure, 1892

Polysphincta genus-group

Tromatobia genus-group

Tribe Pimplini Wesmael, 1845

Tribe Theroniini Cushman & Rohwer, 1920

  • Augerella Gupta, 1962
  • Epitheronia Gupta, 1962
  • Neotheronia Krieger, 1899
  • Nomosphecia Gupta, 1962
  • Parema Gupta, 1962
  • Theronia Holmgren, 1859

References

  1. ^ Oehlke, J. (1967). "Westpaläarktische Ichneumonidae 1, Ephialtinae". Hymenopterorum Catalogus (new edition). 2: 1–49.
  2. ^ Townes, Henry K. (1969). "Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 1 (Ephialtinae (Pimplinae), Tryphoninae, Labiinae, Adelognathinae, Xoridinae, Agriotypinae)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 11: 1–300.
  3. ^ Broad, Gavin (2006). "Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae" (PDF). London: Natural History Museum. pp. 1–38.
  4. ^ Takasuka, Keizo; Fritzén, Niclas R.; Tanaka, Yoshihiro; Matsumoto, Rikio; Maeto, Kaoru; Shaw, Mark R. (2018). "The changing use of the ovipositor in host shifts by ichneumonid ectoparasitoids of spiders (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae)". Parasite. 25: 17. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018011. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 5873220. PMID 29589827.
  5. ^ Fei, Minghui; Gols, Rieta; Harvey, Jeffrey A. (2023-01-23). "The Biology and Ecology of Parasitoid Wasps of Predatory Arthropods". Annual Review of Entomology. 68 (1): 109–128. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-120120-111607. hdl:20.500.11755/8f020f3d-b12d-4d23-8c07-eae6302721b8. ISSN 0066-4170. PMID 36198401. S2CID 252736581.
  6. ^ Klopfstein, Seraina; Langille, Barbara; Spasojevic, Tamara; Broad, Gavin R.; Cooper, J. B.; Austin, Andrew D.; Niehuis, Oliver (2018). "Hybrid capture data unravel a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes)". Systematic Entomology. 44 (2): 361–383. doi:10.1111/syen.12333. hdl:10141/622806.