Pimpla Fabricius, 1804

Pimpla Fabricius, 1804: 112. Type species: Ichneumon instigator Fabricius (= Ichneumon hypochondriaca Retzius), by subsequent designation (Opinion 159, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 1945: 282).

Coccygomimus Saussure, 1892: pl. 14, fig. 12. Type species: Coccygomimus madecassus Saussure, by monotypy.

Habropimpla Cameron, 1900: 96. Type species: Habropimpla bilineata Cameron, by monotypy.

Lissotheronia Cameron, 1905: 139. Type species: Lissotheronia flavipes Cameron, by monotypy.

Phytodiaetoides Morley, 1913: 221. Type species: Phytodiaetoides megaera Morley = Pimpla flavipalpis, by original designation.

Pimplidea Viereck, 1914: 117. Type species: Pimpla pedalis Cresson, by original designation.

Coelopimpla Brèthes, 1916: 402. Type species: Coelopimpla amadei Brèthes, by original designation.

Liotheronia Enderlein, 1919: 147. Type species: Liotheronia kriegeri Enderlein, by original designation.

Dihyboplax Enderlein, 1919: 148. Type species: Dihyboplax flavipennis Enderlein, by original designation.

Neogabunia Brèthes, 1927: 322. Type species: Neogabunia paulistana Brèthes = Pimpla tomyris Schrottky, by monotypy.

Opodactyla Seyrig, 1932: 60. Type species: Pimpla (Opodactyla) waterloti Seyrig, by original designation.

Oxypimpla Noskiewicz & Chudoba, 1951: 42, 56. Type species: Pimpla turionellae Linnaeus, by monotypy.

Jamaicapimpla Mason, 1975. Type species: Ephialtes nigroaeneus Cushman, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Pimpla can be distinguished from other genera of Pimplini (sensu Porter 1970 as Coccygomimus) by the combination of the following character states: 1) inner margin of eye weakly to rather strongly concave above antennal socket; 2) clypeus not divided by a transverse suture; 3) malar space 0.35-1.4 times as long as basal width of mandible; 4) mandible broad and with upper tooth approximately as long as the lower tooth; 5) notaulus weak or absent, without a distinct frontal crest; 6) propodeum with median longitudinal carinae varying from absent to sometimes weakly traceable throughout; 7) pleural carina usually present but sometimes absent; 8) length of fore wing 2.7-18.0 mm; 9) hind femur without a ventral tooth; 10) tarsal claws large and simple, without a basal lobe or an enlarged hair with a flattened tip; 11) metasoma varying from closely punctured to sometimes almost impunctate; 12) females with ovipositor approximately straight, ovipositor tip never sharply decurved.

Gauld et al. (2002) found a single autapomorphy for the genus: mid tarsomere IV medioventrally with a longitudinal band of fine hairs.