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| Pimpla cf. rufipes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Ichneumonidae |
| Subfamily: | Pimplinae |
| Tribe: | Pimplini |
| Genus: | Pimpla Fabricius, 1804 |
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Pimpla are a worldwide genus of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae. They are one of the largest genera within the subfamily Pimplinae.[1]
Pimpla species are idiobiont endoparasitoids of Holometabola, often the pupae or pre-pupae of Lepidoptera. For instance, the common Pimpla rufipes parasitizes Pieris brassicae and Lymantria dispar.[2]
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 1828
- Pimpla apricaria Costa 1885
- Pimpla arcadica Kasparyan 1973
- Pimpla arctica Zetterstedt 1838
- Pimpla artemonis Kasparyan 1973
- Pimpla contemplator (Muller 1776)
- Pimpla coxalis Habermehl 1917
- Pimpla dimidiatus (Townes, 1960)
- Pimpla disparis Viereck, 1911
- Pimpla dorsata (Dalla Torre 1901)
- Pimpla flavicoxis Thomson 1877
- Pimpla glandaria Costa 1886
- Pimpla hesperus (Townes, 1960)
- Pimpla illecebrator (Villers 1789)
- Pimpla insignatoria (Gravenhorst 1807)
- Pimpla melanacrias Perkins 1941
- Pimpla murinanae Fahringer 1943
- Pimpla nigrohirsuta Strobl 1902
- Pimpla processioneae Ratzeburg 1849
- Pimpla rufipes (Miller 1759) - (syn. Pimpla instigator) - black slip wasp
- Pimpla sodalis Ruthe 1859
- Pimpla spuria Gravenhorst 1829
- Pimpla stricklandi (Townes, 1960)
- Pimpla turionellae (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pimpla varians (Townes, 1960)
- Pimpla wilchristi Fitton, Shaw & Gauld 1988
Distribution
The distribution of these wasps is Afrotropical, Eastern and Western Palaearctic, European, Nearctic, Palaearctic, Neotropical.
Gallery
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Pimpla turionellae -
Pimpla sp., female
See also
References
- ^ Pádua, Diego G.; Araujo, Rodrigo O.; Mazariegos, Luis A. (2019-10-09). "Pimpla Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Colombia". Zootaxa. 4683 (3): 439–446. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.3.8. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ "Pimpla rufipes (Miller, 1759)". biolib.cz. Retrieved 12 August 2026.
- Gavin Broad Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae
- Cedarcreek Archived 2019-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- Fauna Europaea
- BioLib.cz
- Hymenoptera Online (HOL)[permanent dead link]
- Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Pimpla Fabricius 1804". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- Taxonomicon
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