# Pimpla

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{{Short description|Genus of insects}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Ichneumonidae - Pimpla cf. rufipes.jpg
| image_caption = ''Pimpla'' [cf.](/source/open_nomenclature) ''rufipes''
| display_parents = 2
| taxon = Pimpla
| authority = [Fabricius](/source/Johan_Christian_Fabricius), 1804
| synonyms = * ''Coccygomimus'' <small>[Saussure](/source/Henri_Louis_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_de_Saussure), 1892</small>
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'''''Pimpla''''' are a worldwide [genus](/source/genus) of the [parasitic wasp](/source/parasitic_wasp) [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Ichneumonidae](/source/Ichneumonidae).

''Pimpla'' species are [idiobiont](/source/idiobiont) endoparasitoids of [Holometabola](/source/Holometabola), often the [pupa](/source/pupa)e of [Lepidoptera](/source/Lepidoptera).  For instance, the common ''[Pimpla rufipes](/source/Pimpla_rufipes)'' parasitizes ''[Pieris brassicae](/source/Pieris_brassicae)'' and ''[Lymantria dispar](/source/Lymantria_dispar)''.

They are generally sturdy black wasps with orange markings. The first [tergite](/source/tergite) is box-like with the [spiracle](/source/Spiracle_(arthropods)) anterior to the middle.

This genus includes about 200 [species](/source/species).

==Selected species==
* ''[Pimpla aethiops](/source/Pimpla_aethiops)'' <small>Curtis 1828</small>
* ''[Pimpla apricaria](/source/Pimpla_apricaria)'' <small>Costa 1885</small>
* ''[Pimpla arcadica](/source/Pimpla_arcadica)'' <small>Kasparyan 1973</small>
* ''[Pimpla arctica](/source/Pimpla_arctica)'' <small>Zetterstedt 1838</small>
* ''[Pimpla artemonis](/source/Pimpla_artemonis)'' <small>Kasparyan 1973</small>
* ''[Pimpla contemplator](/source/Pimpla_contemplator)'' <small>(Muller 1776)</small>
* ''[Pimpla coxalis](/source/Pimpla_coxalis)'' <small>Habermehl 1917</small>
* ''[Pimpla dimidiatus](/source/Pimpla_dimidiatus)'' <small>(Townes, 1960)</small>
* ''[Pimpla disparis](/source/Pimpla_disparis)'' <small> Viereck, 1911 </small>
* ''[Pimpla dorsata](/source/Pimpla_dorsata)'' <small>(Dalla Torre 1901)</small>
* ''[Pimpla flavicoxis](/source/Pimpla_flavicoxis)'' <small>Thomson 1877</small>
* ''[Pimpla glandaria](/source/Pimpla_glandaria)'' <small>Costa 1886</small>
* ''[Pimpla hesperus](/source/Pimpla_hesperus)'' <small>(Townes, 1960)</small>
* ''[Pimpla illecebrator](/source/Pimpla_illecebrator)'' <small>(Villers 1789)</small>
* ''[Pimpla insignatoria](/source/Pimpla_insignatoria)'' <small>(Gravenhorst 1807)</small>
* ''[Pimpla melanacrias](/source/Pimpla_melanacrias)'' <small>Perkins 1941</small>
* ''[Pimpla murinanae](/source/Pimpla_murinanae)'' <small>Fahringer 1943</small>
* ''[Pimpla nigrohirsuta](/source/Pimpla_nigrohirsuta)'' <small>Strobl 1902</small>
* ''[Pimpla processioneae](/source/Pimpla_processioneae)'' <small>Ratzeburg 1849</small> 
* ''[Pimpla rufipes](/source/Pimpla_rufipes)'' <small>(Miller 1759)</small> - (syn. ''Pimpla instigator'') - black slip wasp
* ''[Pimpla sodalis](/source/Pimpla_sodalis)'' <small>Ruthe 1859</small>
* ''[Pimpla spuria](/source/Pimpla_spuria)'' <small>Gravenhorst 1829</small>
* ''[Pimpla stricklandi](/source/Pimpla_stricklandi)'' <small>(Townes, 1960)</small>
* ''[Pimpla turionellae](/source/Pimpla_turionellae)'' <small>(C. Linnaeus, 1758)</small>
* ''[Pimpla varians](/source/Pimpla_varians)'' <small>(Townes, 1960)</small>
* ''[Pimpla wilchristi](/source/Pimpla_wilchristi)'' <small>Fitton, Shaw & Gauld 1988</small>

==Distribution==
The distribution of these wasps is Afrotropical, Eastern and Western Palaearctic, European, Nearctic, Palaearctic, Neotropical.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Pimpla.turionellae2.-.lindsey.jpg|''Pimpla turionellae''
File:Pimpla female.jpg|''Pimpla'' sp., female
</gallery>

==See also==
* [List of ''Pimpla'' species](/source/List_of_Pimpla_species)

==References==
*Gavin Broad [https://web.archive.org/web/20090530010136/http://www.brc.ac.uk/downloads/Ichneumonidae_subfamily_key.pdf ''Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae'']
*[http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/025016bp.html ''Cedarcreek''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904184433/http://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/025016bp.html |date=2019-09-04 }}
*[https://fauna-eu.org/index.php ''Fauna Europaea'']
*[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id66728/ ''BioLib.cz'']
*[http://hol.osu.edu/search.html?limit=50&name=Pimpla ''Hymenoptera Online'' (HOL)]{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
*{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=90178594 |title=''Pimpla'' Fabricius 1804 |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060355/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=90178594 |archive-date=4 March 2016}}
*[http://taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=27818 ''Taxonomicon'']

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