Status of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) in Cuba

Abstract

Current understanding of Cuban ichneumonids (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) is analysed. A new Subfamily (Tersilochinae) including 13 genera and two species are first reports for Cuba. In contrast with Braconidae, the sister group, the ichneumonids are poorly known because of the lack of local taxonomists and bacause nets, rather than interception, light and yellow pan traps have been used. Using Ophioninae as a reference, and comparing the percentage of ophionines in the fauna of Costa Rican ichneumonids, the ratio of species of Costa Rican to Cuban Ophioninae and the increase in the number of described Cuban ophionines, we suggest that actual Cuban biodiversity in this group may be between 400 and 600 species. Rev. Biol. Trop. 54 (3): 821-827. Epub 2006 Sept. 29.

Subfamily composition of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) from western Amazonia: Insights into diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps

“…, 1998, 2002). Taxonomic papers have also been published on the Mexican and Cuban faunas (Kasparyan & Ruíz Cancino, 2005, 2008; Fernández Triana et al. , 2006; González‐Moreno, 2011).…”

Mexican species of the genus Stethantyx Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Tersilochinae)

“…In the Neotropical region, 22 species were recently described from Costa Rica (Khalaim and Broad 2013); in South America, eight species (including Stethantyx parkeri ) have been described from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay (Blanchard 1945, Graf 1980), and 16 species (including ten new species), have been found to occur in Western Amazonia (Khalaim et al 2013). Two unidentified species of Stethantyx were also reported from Cuba (Fernández-Triana et al 2006). …”