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A New Species of Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae), from Southern Mexico, Parasitic on Zanola verago Cramer, 1777 (Lepidoptera, Apatelodidae), Feeding on Piper neesianum C. DC. (Piperaceae)

https://doi.org/10.3390/d17070466

Campos-Moreno, Diego Fernando; Palacio, Edgard; Lara-Pérez, Luis Alberto; Whitfield, James B; Pozo, Carmen; Dyer, Lee A (July 2025, Diversity)

Plant–herbivore–parasitoid systems are poorly studied in the tropics. Enicospilus carmenae Campos and Palacio sp. nov. are described, originating from southern Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula and establishing a new tri-trophic interaction. This species is a koinobiont larval endoparasitoid of the American silkworm moth caterpillar Zanola verago (Cramer) (Lepidoptera: Apatelodidae) feeding on the shrub Piper neesianum C.DC. (Piperaceae) in a semi-evergreen forest. The host plant P. neesianum had no herbivore records to date, and a single collection event yielded the rearing of a new species of Enicospilus (Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae). Morphological, molecular (COI), biological, ecological, and geographical data are integrated to delineate the new species.
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Many evolutionary roads led to virus domestication in ichneumonoid parasitoid wasps

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2021.12.001

Santos, Bernardo F; Klopfstein, Seraina; Whitfield, James B; Sharanowski, Barbara J (April 2022, Current Opinion in Insect Science)

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Orientocardiochiles, a new genus of Cardiochilinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), with descriptions of two new species from Malaysia and Vietnam

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.971.56571

Kang, Ilgoo; Long, Khuat Dang; Sharkey, Michael J.; Whitfield, James B.; Lord, Nathan P. (September 2020, ZooKeys)
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For the first time in 21 years, a new genus of cardiochiline braconid wasp, Orientocardiochiles Kang & Long, gen. nov. (type species Orientocardiochiles joeburrowi Kang, sp. nov. ), is discovered and described. This genus represents the ninth genus in the Oriental region. Two new species ( O. joeburrowi Kang, sp. nov. and O. nigrofasciatus Long, sp. nov. ) are described and illustrated, and a key to species of the genus, with detailed images, is added. Diagnostic characters of the new genus are analyzed and compared with several other cardiochiline genera to allow the genus to key out properly using an existing generic treatment. The scientific names validated by this paper and morphological data obtained from this project will be utilized and tested in the upcoming genus-level revision of the subfamily based on combined morphological and molecular data.
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Phylogenomics of Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) and implications for evolution of mode of parasitism and viral endogenization

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2020.107023

Sharanowski, Barbara J.; Ridenbaugh, Ryan D.; Piekarski, Patrick K.; Broad, Gavin R.; Burke, Gaelen R.; Deans, Andrew R.; Lemmon, Alan R.; Moriarty Lemmon, Emily C.; Diehl, Gloria J.; Whitfield, James B.; et al (March 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution)
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