The Neotropical species of Clistopyga (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae). Part I: the C. chaconi species group, with the description of eleven new species

A checklist of Pimplinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Estação Ecológica dos Caetetus in São Paulo state, with new records of Neotheronia Krieger, 1899 from Brazil

“…Recent studies show that the ichneumonid fauna of South America still contains many undescribed species (e.g., Palacio et al 2010, Valera & Días 2010, Veijalainen et al 2012, Gómez et al 2014, Gómez & Yabar-Landa 2015, Pádua et al 2015, Sääksjärvi et al 2015, Bordera et al 2016.…”

First record of Clistopyga melanoptera Castillo, Sääksjärvi & Bordera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) in Brazil

“…In Brazil, only C. amazonica Bordera & Sääksjärvi, 2016, C. jakobii Graf, 1985, and C. rondoniae Bordera & Sääk-sjärvi, 2016(Fernandes et al 2016 were recorded, but with our new record of C. melanoptera, a fourth species is recorded for the country. The geographic distribution of …”

“…This species can be distinguished from the other species of the C. chaconi species-group by the following combination of characters: wings black, except a wide hyaline band bordering veins Rs+2r, 2rs-m and 2m-cu of fore wing; first flagellomere about 6.0 times longer than wide; malar space 0.8 times longer than basal mandibular width; occipital carina strongly raised, forming a dorsomedial flange, conspicuously upcurved posteriorly; length of metasomal tergite I twice its posterior width; ovipositor slender, strongly upcurved at distal 0.45, about 1.4 times length of hind tibia; setae of ovipositor sheath about 1.35 times the sheath basal width (Bordera et al 2016). Comments.…”

“…Clistopyga Gravenhorst, 1829 is a small genus of the subfamily Pimplinae with only 49 recognized species worldwide (Yu et al 2012;Bordera et al 2014Bordera et al , 2016Sääksjärvi et al 2015;Varga & Reshchikov 2015). The genus is a parasitoid wasp which utilizes eggs in spider eggsacs (Nielsen 1929;Gauld & Dubois 2006).…”

“…Recently, Bordera et al (2016) reviewed the C. chaconi species-group and described 11 new species. One of these, C. melanoptera, was known only from the type locality (Amarakaeri Communal Reserve in the Department of Cusco, Peru).…”