Pimplinae

Taxobox
name = Pimplinae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta

ordo = Hymenoptera
subordo = Apocrita
superfamilia = Ichneumonoidea
familia = Ichneumonidae
subfamilia = Pimplinae
subfamilia_authority = Wesmael, 1845

Pimplinae are a worldwide subfamily of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.

Pimplinae are idiobiont extoparasitoids of Holometabola often the pupae of Lepidoptera. Species of "Tromatobia" parasitize the egg sacs and adults of spiders, There are 95 genera.Pimplinae are (very generally) sturdy black species with orange markings.The first tergite is box-like with the spiracle anterior to the middle.

References

*Oehlke J. (1967): Westpaläarktische Ichneumonidae 1, Ephialtinae. "Hymenopterorum Catalogus" (new edition) 2: 1-49.
*Townes, H.T. (1969a): Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 1 (Ephialtinae (Pimplinae) , Tryphoninae, Labiinae, Adelognathinae, Xoridinae, Agriotypinae). "Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute" 11: 1-300.

External Links

* [http://bitkikorumamuzesi.netfirms.com/ichneumonidae_anahtar.htm#pimplinae Diagnostic characters]
* [http://www.waspweb.org/Ichneumonoidea/Ichneumonidae/Pimplinae/index.htm Waspweb]
* [http://ponent.atspace.org/fauna/ins/fam/ichneumonidae/pimplinae_pim.htm Ponent] Images (in easy Spanish)