Pimpla caerulea Brullé, 1846 Pimpla caerulea Brullé 1846: 101 [holotype ♀ (MNHN), Brazil, “prov. de Rio-Grande ”]. References. Morley 1914: 70 [Mexico (Veracruz), Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay, Brazil]. Townes & Townes 1966: 24 [Coccygomimus caeruleus caeruleus; catalogue;? Mexico]. Porter 1970a: 54 [Coccygomimus caeruleus; description; distribution in South America; host]. Ruíz-Cancino & Tejada 1986: 39 [Coccygomimus caeruleus; Mexico (Nuevo León)]. Gauld 1991: 522 [notes on distribution: South America]. Díaz 2000: 248 [Venezuela]. Kumagai & Graf 2000: 162 [Brazil (Paraná)]. Kumagai & Graf 2002: 450 [Brazil (Paraná)]. Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002: 645 [checklist; Mexico]. Sánchez-García et al. 2015: 828 [checklist; Mexico (Oaxaca)]. Pádua et al. 2020: 29 [diagnosis; Uruguay]. Remarks. This is a South American species probably extending to Panama. Records of this species from Mexico (Ruíz-Cancino & Tejada 1986; Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002; Sánchez-García et al. 2015) actually belong to P. caeruleata. Distribution. South America. Biology. Parasitoid of the moth Alabama argillacea (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), pest of cotton, at Tucumán, Argentina (Townes & Townes 1966: 24; Porter 1970a: 62).

Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2021, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: genera Apechthis Förster, Itoplectis Förster and Pimpla Fabricius, pp. 451-491 in Zootaxa 5071 (4) on page 466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5071.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5726393