Review of North American species of the genus Lymeon Foerster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini)

D.R. Kasparyan & E. Ruíz-Cancino

Abstract. A key to 33 North American species of Lymeon is given. Twenty eight species are recorded for Mexico; new data on their distribution are given. Nine new species from Mexico are described. New synonymies are established: Lymeon imbecillis (Cresson, 1868), ♂ = L. leucosoma (Cameron, 1886), ♀, syn. n.; L. patruelis (Cresson, 1873), ♀ = L. rarus Cresson, 1873, ♂, syn. n. Two species are transferred from Lymeon: Rhinium absolutum (Cresson, 1873), comb. n. and Acerastes accolens (Cresson, 1873), comb. n.

Zoosystematica Rossica, 2004, 13(1): 53–79 ▪ Published in print 28 December 2004

https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2004.13.1.53 ▪ Open full article

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