Calliephialtes ferrugineus Cushman, 1940

Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2022, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: Ephialtes genus-group, Zootaxa 5169 (3), pp. 201-251 : 210

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5169.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6957878
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scientific name	Calliephialtes ferrugineus Cushman, 1940
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1. Calliephialtes ferrugineus Cushman, 1940 View in CoL

Calliephialtes ferrugineus Cushman 1940: 362 View in CoL

[ holotype ♀ ( USNM), Puerto Rico, Boqueron, ex Pectinophora gossypiella , 20.v.1938, coll. K.A. Bartlett; ♀].

References. Townes & Townes 1951: 188 [catalogue]. Wolcott 1951: 765 [ Puerto Rico; host]. Townes & Townes 1960: 86 [description; USA ( Florida), Cuba, Puerto Rico; host]. Townes & Townes 1966: 11 [catalogue]. Gauld 1991: 187 [description; Costa Rica,? Jamaica]. Carlson 1979: 326 [catalogue]. Gauld et al. 1998: 21 [ Costa Rica]. González-Moreno & Bordera 2012: 35 [ Mexico ( Yucatán)].

Material examined. USA. Florida: 2 ♀ ( AEIC) Miami , 16.iii.1966, coll. H. & M. Townes. 1 ♀ ( AEIC) 50 km SW of Miami, “ UadeCo; ChekikaSt. RecArea ”, 3.iii–28.iv.1985, coll. S. & J. Peck et al. 1 ♂ ( AEIC) Alachua Co., Gainesville , ex Clydonopteron tecomae Riley (det. D.H. Habeck), 29.x.1962, coll. D.H. Habeck.

Distribution. USA ( Florida), Mexico ( Yucatán), Cuba, Puerto Rico,? Jamaica, Costa Rica.

Biology. The holotype and paratype were reared from the pink bollworm Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) ( Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae ) in Puerto Rico ( Cushman 1940: 362). One male examined in the AEIC was reared from Clydonopteron tecomae Riley ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ) in Florida. Wolcott (1951: 765) reported this species as a solitary parasitoid of a shoot borer Hypsipyla grandella (Zeller) ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ) in Cedrela odorata L. ( Meliaceae ) in Puerto Rico.