Pimpla


Pimpla are a worldwide genus of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.
Pimpla species are idiobiont endoparasitoids of Holometabola, often the pupae of Lepidoptera. For instance, the common Pimpla rufipes parasitizes Pieris brassicae and Lymantria dispar.
They are generally sturdy black wasps with orange markings. The first tergite is box-like with the spiracle anterior to the middle.
This genus includes about 200 species.

Selected species

Pimpla aethiops Curtis 1828Pimpla apricaria Costa 1885Pimpla arcadica Kasparyan 1973Pimpla arctica Zetterstedt 1838Pimpla artemonis Kasparyan 1973Pimpla contemplator Pimpla coxalis Habermehl 1917Pimpla dimidiatus Pimpla disparis Viereck, 1911 Pimpla dorsata Pimpla flavicoxis Thomson 1877Pimpla glandaria Costa 1886Pimpla hesperus Pimpla illecebrator Pimpla insignatoria Pimpla melanacrias Perkins 1941Pimpla murinanae Fahringer 1943Pimpla nigrohirsuta Strobl 1902Pimpla processioneae Ratzeburg 1849 Pimpla rufipes - - black slip waspPimpla sodalis Ruthe 1859Pimpla spuria Gravenhorst 1829Pimpla stricklandi Pimpla turionellae Pimpla varians Pimpla wilchristi Fitton, Shaw & Gauld 1988

Distribution

The distribution of these wasps is Afrotropical, Eastern and Western Palaearctic, European, Nearctic, Palaearctic, Neotropical.