Pimpla caerulea Brulle 1846

Pimpla caerulea Brull��, 1846 (Fig. 1B) Pimpla caerulea Brull��, 1846. In Lepeletier: Histoire naturelle des insects Hym��nopt��res, 4: 101. des. Type: ♀, Brazil: ���Prov. De Rio Grande��� (MNHN). Coccygomimus caeruleatus Townes & Townes, 1946: 34. Coccygomimus caeruleatus caeruleus Townes & Townes, 1966: 24. Coccygomimus caeruleatus glaucus Townes & Townes, 1966: 25. Diagnosis. Clypeus weakly concave apically; mesosoma and metasoma metallic blue; wings blackish; fore wing with Rs more or less straight and cu-a opposite to Rs&M; metasoma with laterotergite V narrow, less than 0.30�� as long as wide; female with tergite I short and wide, strongly convex laterally; male with fore coxae white marked. Biological notes. Host is the Noctuidae moth Alabama argillacea (H��bner) (Porter, 1970). Distribution. According to Yu et al. (2012): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and Venezuela. * Colombia.
Published as part of P��dua, Diego G., Araujo, Rodrigo O. & Mazariegos, Luis A., 2019, Pimpla Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Colombia, pp. 439-446 in Zootaxa 4683 (3) on page 441, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/3479049
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