Pimpla

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| image = Ichneumonidae - Pimpla cf. rufipes.jpg

| image_caption = Pimpla cf. rufipes

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| taxon = Pimpla

| authority = Fabricius, 1804

| synonyms = * Coccygomimus Saussure, 1892

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Pimpla are a worldwide genus of the parasitic wasp family Ichneumonidae.

Pimpla species are idiobiont endoparasitoids of Holometabola, often the pupae of Lepidoptera. For instance, the common Pimpla rufipes parasitizes Pieris brassicae and Lymantria dispar.

They are generally sturdy black wasps with orange markings. The first tergite is box-like with the spiracle anterior to the middle.

This genus includes about 200 species.

Selected species

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

File:Pimpla.turionellae2.-.lindsey.jpg|Pimpla turionellae

File:Pimpla female.jpg|Pimpla sp., female

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]