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Acropimpla Townes

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Pimplinae)

Acropimpla Townes, 1960. Type species: Charitopimpla leucostoma Townes & Townes, 1960.

Acropimpla alboscutellaris (Szépligeti, 1908)

Acropimpla lutea Varga, 2026

Acropimpla lucifugus (Seyrig, 1932)

Distribution

Kenya, Madagascar, Tanzania, Uganda.

Worldwide.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Townes, H.K. 1960. The application of the name Syene (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 62:43.

Townes, H.K. and Townes, M. 1960. Ichneumon-flies of American north of Mexico: 2 Subfamily Ephialtinae, Xoridinae, Acaenitinae. United States National Museum Bulletin. 216(2):1-676.

Varga, O. 2026. New records of the genus Acropimpla (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) from the Afrotropical Region. Zoodiversity 60: 121-126. https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2026.02.121

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). or © Oleksandr Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine).

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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