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Neotheronia donovani Gauld 1991

  • 1. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. & Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2. Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.

Description

7. Neotheronia donovani Gauld, 1991

Neotheronia donovani Gauld 1991: 437 [holotype ♀ (INBio), Costa Rica, Guanacaste Prov., Guanacaste National Park, Sector Santa Rosa, 300 m, viii–xii.1984, coll. D. Janzen (examined); ♀ ♂].

References. Gauld et al. 1998: 132 [in key; Costa Rica]. Kumagai & Graf 2002: 450 [? Brazil (Paraná)]. Kumagai 2002: 192 [Brazil (Minas Gerais)].

Material examined. MEXICO. Tamaulipas: 1 ♀ (UAT) NW of Cd. Victoria, Los Troncones (park), 27.ii.2009, coll. A.I. Khalaim. Jalisco: 1 ♀, 1 ♂ (UAT) La Huerta, Biological Station Chamela, 600 m, Malaise trap, 15– 20.vii.1999, coll. M.A. Sarmiento. Veracruz: 2 ♀ (UAT, ZISP) SW of Xalapa, park near Institute de Ecología, 19°30.768’N, 96°56.349’W, 1260 m, 12–14.iv.2014, coll. A.I. Khalaim. COSTA RICA. 1 ♀ (UAT) Guanacaste Prov., Guanacaste National Park, Maritza Biological Station, Volcán Orosí, 560 m, vi.1988, coll. I.D. Gauld & P. Mitchell (det. I.D. Gauld).

Distribution. Mexico (Tamaulipas, Jalisco, Veracruz), Costa Rica,?Brazil. First record from Mexico.

Biology. Reared from Eunica monima modesta (Bates) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) on Bursera simaruba (L.) (Burseraceae) in Costa Rica; fully grown the parasitoid larva spins a loose coarsely woven cocoon within the host pupa (Gauld 1991). Probably parasitize in pupae of Syssphinx molina (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) (Gauld 1991).

Notes

Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2021, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: genera Neotheronia Krieger, Nomosphecia Gupta and Xanthopimpla Saussure, pp. 401-440 in Zootaxa 4950 (3) on page 411, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4649850

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
INBio , ZISP
Event date
1999-07-15 , 2009-02-27 , 2014-04-12
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Neotheronia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gauld
Species
donovani
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1999-07-15/20 , 2009-02-27 , 2014-04-12/14
Taxonomic concept label
Neotheronia donovani Gauld, 1991 sec. Khalaim & Ruíz-Cancino, 2021

References

  • Gauld, I. D. (1991) The Ichneumonidae of Costa Rica, 1. Introduction, keys to subfamilies, and keys to the species of the lower Pimpliform subfamilies Rhyssinae, Poemeniinae, Acaenitinae and Cylloceriinae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 47, 1 - 589.
  • Gauld, I. D., Ugalde-Gomez, J. A. & Hanson, P. (1998) Guia de los Pimplinae de Costa Rica (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 46 (Supplement 1), 1 - 189.
  • Kumagai, A. F. & Graf, V. (2002) Biodiversidade de Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) e monitoramento das especies de Pimplinae e Poemeniinae do Capao da Imbuia, Curitiba, Parana. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 19 (2), 445 - 452. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81752002000200010