Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) wasp community in the cloudy forest Monteseco, Cajamarca, Peru

Authors

  • Evelyn Sánchez 1 Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, Av. Arenales 1256 Jesús María, Lima 14, Perú. 2 Departamento de Entomologia, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P. H. Rolfs S/N, Campus Universitário, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, 36570-900, Brasil.
  • Mabel Alvarado 1 Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, Av. Arenales 1256 Jesús María, Lima 14, Perú. 3 Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA
  • Juan Grados Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural, Av. Arenales 1256 Jesús María, Lima 14, Perú.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v21i3.10896

Keywords:

Ophioninae, Neotropics, species, diversity, elevation.

Abstract

We describe the species composition of the subfamily Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) along an altitudinal gradient in the cloudy forest Monteseco, Cajamarca, Peru collected in 2009 and 2010. Eighteen species were recorded in three genera of Ophioninae: Alophophion, Enicospilus y Ophion. Five species are recorded for the first time in Peru: Ophion polyhymniae Gauld, 1988; Enicospilus cubensis (Norton, 1863); E. guatemalensis (Cameron, 1886); E. cressoni Hooker, 1912 y E. mexicanus (Cresson, 1874). Subfamily composition varies with the elevation. The highest species richness (S=11) was found at 2150 m and the lowest (S=3) at 3116 m. Enicospilus is more diverse from low to mid elevation, Ophion from mid to high elevation and Alophophion occurs predominantly at high elevation.

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Published

12/28/2014

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 3 (2014)

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How to Cite

Sánchez, Evelyn, Mabel Alvarado, and Juan Grados. 2014. “Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) Wasp Community in the Cloudy Forest Monteseco, Cajamarca, Peru”. Revista Peruana De Biología 21 (3): 229-34. https://doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v21i3.10896.