''Hymenoepimecis'' is a genus of parasitoid
wasps
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. Th ...
belonging to the family
Ichneumonidae
The Ichneumonidae, also known as ichneumon wasps, ichneumonid wasps, ichneumonids, or Darwin wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps of the insect order Hymenoptera. They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25 ...
best known for parasitizing
arachnids
Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida () of the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and vinegaroons.
Adult arachnids ...
, specifically those of the families
Araneidae
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and
Tetragnathidae
Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866. They have elongated bodies, legs, and chelicerae, and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-s ...
.
Distribution
The species of this genus are found in the
New World
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, from
Mexico
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to southern
Brazil
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.
Species
''Hymenoepimecis'' comprises the following twenty-seven species:
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Hymenoepimecis amazonensis''
Pádua & Oliveira, 2015
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Hymenoepimecis andina''
Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020
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Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga''
Gauld, 2000
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Hymenoepimecis atriceps''
(Cresson, 1865)
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Hymenoepimecis bicolor''
(Brullé, 1846)
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Hymenoepimecis cameroni''
Townes, 1966
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Hymenoepimecis castilloi''
Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020
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Hymenoepimecis dolichocarinata''
Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020
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Hymenoepimecis duckensis''
Pádua & Onody, 2015
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Hymenoepimecis ecuatoriana''
Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020
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Hymenoepimecis heidyae''
Gauld, 1991
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Hymenoepimecis heteropus''
(Kriechbaumer, 1890)
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Hymenoepimecis japi''
Sobczak, Loffredo, Penteado-Dias & Gonzaga, 2009
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Hymenoepimecis jordanensis''
Loffredo & Penteado-Dias, 2009
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Hymenoepimecis kleini''
Pádua & Sobczak, 2015
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Hymenoepimecis longilobus''
Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020
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Hymenoepimecis manauara''
Pádua & Oliveira, 2015
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Hymenoepimecis neotropica''
(Brues & Richardson, 1913)
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Hymenoepimecis pucallpina''
Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020
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Hymenoepimecis rafaelmartinezi''
Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020
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Hymenoepimecis ribeiroi''
Pádua & Sobczak, 2015
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Hymenoepimecis robertsae''
Gauld, 1991
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Hymenoepimecis silvanae''
Loffredo & Penteado-Dias, 2009
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Hymenoepimecis sooretama''
Sobczak, Loffredo, Penteado-Dias & Gonzaga, 2009
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Hymenoepimecis tedfordi''
Gauld, 1991
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Hymenoepimecis uberensis''
Pádua & Onody, 2015
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Hymenoepimecis veranii''
Loffredo & Penteado-Dias, 2009
References
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Ichneumonidae
Ichneumonidae genera
Pimplinae