First records of Scotaena Klug, 1810 species (Hymenoptera,&nbsp;Tiphiidae, Thynninae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

Fernando Carnimeo; Cíntia Eleonora Lopes Justino; Fernando Barbosa Noll

doi:10.15560/13.4.255

Check List 13(4): 255-260, doi: 10.15560/13.4.255

First records of Scotaena Klug, 1810 species (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Thynninae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest

Fernando Henrique Carnimeo^‡, Cíntia Eleonora Lopes Justino^‡, Fernando Barbosa Noll^‡

‡ Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São José do Rio Preto, Brazil

Corresponding author: Fernando Henrique Carnimeo ( fernandocarnimeo@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Filippo Di Giovanni

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Citation: Carnimeo FH, Justino CEL, Noll FB (2017) First records of Scotaena Klug, 1810 species (Hymenoptera, Tiphiidae, Thynninae) in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest. Check List 13(4): 255-260. https://doi.org/10.15560/13.4.255

Abstract

Scotaena is considered a dumping ground genus of the Neotropical thynnine, having both a complicated taxonomy and a poorly known geographical distribution. This work presents the first records of Scotaena decora (Smith, 1859), and Scotaena polistoides Turner, 1910 in 13 areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest in São Paulo state, Brazil. Both species were previously known only from their type localities, in Amazonia, Brazil and Chaco, Paraguay, respectively. These new records expand the range of distributions of both species to a new biome and contribute to the natural history of the genus.

Keywords

Parasitoid wasps; Neotropics; Semideciduous Atlantic Forest