Acrotaphus

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| image = Acrotaphus wiltii ♀ (47371550341).jpg

| image_caption = Acrotaphus wiltii female

| taxon = Acrotaphus

| authority = Townes & Townes, 1960

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Acrotaphus is a genus of ichneumon wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. There are 27 described species in the genus. They are parasitoids of spiders in the families Araneidae and Tetragnathidae.{{cite journal | last=Gauld | first=Ian D. | last2=Dubois | first2=Jacques | title=Phylogeny of the Polysphincta group of genera (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae; Pimplinae): a taxonomic revision of spider ectoparasitoids | journal=Systematic Entomology | publisher=Wiley | volume=31 | issue=3 | date=2006-03-29 | issn=0307-6970 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2006.00334.x | pages=529–564}}

Species

These 27 species belong to the genus Acrotaphus:

Acrotaphus amajari (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus amazonicus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
Acrotaphus bodoquenaensis (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus chedelae (Gauld, 1991)
Acrotaphus cuzconus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
Acrotaphus dolichopus (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus fasciatus (Brulle, 1846)
Acrotaphus fascipennis (Cresson, 1865)
Acrotaphus ferruginosus (Cresson, 1865)
Acrotaphus franklini (Gauld, 1991)
Acrotaphus fuscipennis (Cresson, 1865)
Acrotaphus homeofranklini (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus jackiechani (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
Acrotaphus japi (Higa & Penteado-Dias, 2019)
Arcotaphus kourou (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
Acrotaphus latifasciatus (Cameron, 1911)
Acrotaphus mexicanus (Cameron, 1886)
Acrotaphus micrus (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus monotaenius (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus nambilloensis (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus pseudoamazonicus (Pádua & Sääksjärvi, 2020)
Acrotaphus pseudomexicanus (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus tibialis (Cameron, 1886)
Acrotaphus venezuelanus (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus wagnerianae (Pádua, 2020)
Acrotaphus wiltii (Cresson, 1870)
Acrotaphus zampieronae (Pádua, 2020)

Gallery

Acrotaphus fasciatus (351996493).jpg|Acrotaphus fasciatus female

Acrotaphus fuscipennis (87611576).jpg|Acrotaphus fuscipennis male

Acrotaphus latifasciatus CBG-A04479-D11.jpg|Acrotaphus latifasciatus female

Acrotaphus tibialis (350256601).jpg|Acrotaphus tibialis female

Parasite wasp, left 2020-08-17-18.37.43 ZS PMax UDR (50422506593).jpg|Acrotaphus wiltii female

References

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{{cite book |editor-last1=Krombein |editor-first1=Karl V. |editor-last2=Hurd |editor-first2=Paul D. Jr. |editor-last3=Smith |editor-first3=David R. |editor-last4=Burks |editor-first4=B.D. |chapter=Ichneumonidae |last=Carlson |first=Robert W. |date=1979 |title=Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico |volume= 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica) |url= https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/catalog-hymenoptera-america-north-mexico |accessdate =2018-05-08 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |pages=385–386}}

{{cite journal |first1=Diego G. |last1=Pádua |first2=Ilari E. |last2=Sääksjärvi |first3=Ricardo F. |last3=Monteiro |first4=Marcio L. |last4=Oliveira |date=January 19, 2020 |title=Review of the New World genus Acrotaphus Townes, 1960 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae), with descriptions of fifteen new species |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4719 |issue=1 |pages=zootaxa.4719.1.1 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4719.1.1 |pmid=32230647 |s2cid=212927763 }}

{{cite journal |author1= P. T. Higa|author2= A. M. Penteado-Dias |date= May 20, 2019|title=Altitudinal effects on diversity of Pimplinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Southeast Brazil and description of new species |journal=Brazilian Journal of Biology |volume=80 |issue= 2 |pages=Article |doi= 10.1590/1519-6984.210438 |pmid= 31116298 |doi-access= free }}

{{cite journal |first1=Diego G. |last1=Pádua |last2=Kloss |first2=Thiago G. |date=July 9, 2020 |title=A new species of Acrotaphus Townes (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from the Brazilian Amazon, with notes on its host spider behavioral modification |journal=Zootaxa |volume=4810 |issue=1 |pages=161-168 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.10}}

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Category:Pimplinae

Category:Ichneumonidae genera