Neotheronia montezuma
Creators: name: Khalaim, Andrey I.
name: Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Neotheronia
Neotheronia montezuma

description: 16. Neotheronia montezuma (Cresson, 1874)
(Figs 27–30)
Theronia montezuma Cresson 1874: 395 [♀ ♂ (ANSP), Mexico, Veracruz, Orizaba Córdoba, Mirador].
References. Cameron 1886: 264 [Theronia; “common Mexican species”, Mexico (Veracruz)]. Krieger 1905: 305 [Mexico]. Morley 1914: 56 [remarks; “the commonest Mexican species”, Mexico (Veracruz, Guerrero, Tabasco, Yucatán, etc.)]. Cresson 1916: 44 [lectotype ♀ (ANSP) designated, Mexico, Veracruz]. Townes & Townes 1966: 35 [Theronia (Neotheronia); catalogue; Mexico]. Gauld 1991: 429 [description; Mexico (Veracruz, Guerrero, Tabasco, Yucatán), Costa Rica, Venezuela]. Gauld et al. 1998: 131 [in key; Costa Rica; host]. Hernández-Aguilar et al. 1999: 36 [Mexico (Tamaulipas)]. Kumagai 2002: 192 [Brazil (Minas Gerais)]. Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2002: 645 [checklist; Mexico]. Gauld et al. 2002: 73 [El Salvador]. Hernández-Aguilar et al. 2005: 470 [Mexico (Tamaulipas)]. Ruíz-Cancino et al. 2010: 66 [checklist; Mexico (Tamaulipas)]. González-Moreno & Bordera 2012: 36 [Mexico (Yucatán)].
Material examined. MEXICO. Tamaulipas: 1 ♀ (UAT) San Carlos, Rincón Murillo, Selva Baja, 20.x.1995, coll. S. Hernández A. & C.A. Covarrubias D. 1 ♂ (UAT) Llera, 44 km S of Cd. Victoria, matorral, Malaise trap, 21–28.x.2000, coll. D.R. Kasparyan. 1 ♀ (UAT) Gómez Farías, Alta Cimas, 12.x.1990, coll. S. Varela F. 1 ♂ (UAT) same locality, Malaise trap, 19–26.vi.1999, coll. S. Hernández A. 1 ♀ (UAT) same locality and trap, 900 m, 9–16.ix.2000, coll. D.R. Kasparyan. 1 ♂ (UAT) Cd. Victoria— Soto La Marina, km 68, 11.v.1985, coll. E. Ruíz C. Ocampo, Ejido El Bejuco, 900 m, Malaise trap, 2016, coll. E. Ruíz-Cancino et al. (all in UAT): 17–28.iv (1 ♀), 29.iv–14.v (1 ♀), 9–29.vii (1 ♀, 2 ♂), 30.vii–12.viii (1 ♂). San Luis Potosí: 1 ♀ (FSCA) 12 km S of Valles, Ruta 85, Hotel Covadonga, 27–29.vi.1981, coll. C. Porter & L.A. Stange. 1 ♀ (AEIC) 24 km “W.N.” Morelos, El Naranjo, 9.x.1962, coll. H. & M. Townes, “HOMOTYPE Theronia montezuma ’63 Cr. H. K. Townes”. Jalisco: 1 ♂ (UNAM) Biological Station Chamela, camino Antiquo, 19.50476°N, 105.0367°W, 59 m, dry forest, 22.xi.2009, coll. A. Zaldívar R. Veracruz: 1 ♀ (UAT) SW of Xalapa, park near Institute de Ecología, 19°30.768’N, 96°56.349’W, 1260 m, 17–18.ii.2009, coll. A.I. Khalaim. 1 ♀ (ZISP) same data, but 12–14.iv.2014. 1 ♀ (EMEC) Fortin de las Flores, 1010 m, 7–12.vii.1974, coll. J.A. Chemsak, E. & J. Linsley, J. Powell. 1 ♀ (UNAM) Biological Station Los Tuxtlas, 20–22.viii.1988, coll. C. Beautelspocher. 1 ♂ (EMEC) same data, but 1–9.vii.1988, coll. J.A. Chemsak. Morelos: 3 ♀ (UAT), 1 ♂ (CIUM) N of Cuernavaca, Chamilpa, 13.ii.1991, coll. G. Peña. 1 ♀ (UAT) Tepoztlán, 18°59’51”N, 99°05’55”W, 1490 m, 5.iii.2010, coll. A.E. Humala. Oaxaca: 1 ♀ (IPN) Cuilapam, Nogal, Malaise trap, 12.iii.2005, coll. J.M. Maldonado. 1 ♀ (EMEC) Temascal, 19.i.1964, coll. K.H. Janzen. 1 ♀ (TAMU) 5 mi. S of Candelaria Loxicha, 18–19.vii.1974, coll. Clark, Murray, Ashe & Schaffner. 1 ♀ (TAMU) 2 mi. N of Candelaria Loxicha, 17.vii.1985, coll. Jones & Schaffner. COSTA RICA. 1 ♀ (UAT) Guanacaste Prov., Santa Rosa National Park, 300 m, iii–v.1984, coll. I.D. Gauld (det. I.D. Gauld).
Distribution. Mexico (Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Jalisco, Veracruz, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Yucatán), El Salvador, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil (Minas Gerais).
Biology. Reared from cocoon of Acharia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Limacodidae) in Costa Rica (Gauld et al. 1998). One male from Venezuela probably was reared from Sibene sp. (Limacodidae), a common pest of cultivated palms (Gauld 1991).
description: Published as part of Khalaim, Andrey I. & Ruíz-Cancino, Enrique, 2021, Darwin wasps of the subfamily Pimplinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Mexico: genera Neotheronia Krieger, Nomosphecia Gupta and Xanthopimpla Saussure, pp. 401-440 in Zootaxa 4950 (3) on page 418, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4649850