On the genus Sericopimpla Kriechbaumer, 1895 (Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) in the Afrotropics, with the description of a new species
: Österman, Emil M.; Hopkins, Tapani; Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.; Kaunisto, Kari M.; van Noort, Simon
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
: 2026
ZooKeys
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: 1313-2989
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1268.181918
: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1268.181918
: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/515704471
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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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.
