On the genus Sericopimpla Kriechbaumer, 1895 (Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) in the Afrotropics, with the description of a new species - UTU Research Portal

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On the genus Sericopimpla Kriechbaumer, 1895 (Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) in the Afrotropics, with the description of a new species

Authors: Österman, Emil M.; Hopkins, Tapani; Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.; Kaunisto, Kari M.; van Noort, Simon

Publisher: Pensoft Publishers

Publication year: 2026

Journal: ZooKeys

Issue: 1268

First page : 325

Last page: 336

ISSN: 1313-2989

eISSN: 1313-2970

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1268.181918

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Abstract

Sericopimpla Kriechbaumer, 1895 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) is a moderately large Darwin wasp genus distributed mostly in the Paleotropics and Australasian region. Here, we describe a new Afrotropical species of the genus, S. kibalensis sp. nov., and provide notes on the intraspecific variation of the other known Afrotropical species: S. sericata (Kriechbaumer, 1895). We record the genus for the first time from Uganda, based on specimens collected with Malaise traps in Kibale National Park.

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Funding information in the publication:
The collecting, processing, and publishing of the Ugandan material was supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, the Entomological Society of Finland, the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, and Waldemar von Frenckells stiftelse (grants to Tapani Hopkins). The Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland) and the Research Council of Finland funded Emil M. Österman’s doctoral research through the Sustainability Transformations Doctoral Education Pilot while writing this article.