Two new species of Xanthopimpla from Western Amazonia 55 Two new species of Xanthopimpla (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Western Amazonia, with a revised key to the Neotropical species of the genus Isrrael C. Gómez 1,† , Ilari E. Sääksjärvi 1, ‡ , Anu Veijalainen 1, § , Gavin R. Broad 2,| 1 Zoological Museum, Section of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology, FIN- 20014 University of Turku, Finland 2 Department of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK † urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:88666012-C2DD-4EE6-B526-8CEDE001CC05 ‡ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:2B80E7A4-FEA6-4493-80C1-5B28FB0CDB8F § urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:2A9B042E-9513-4670-B75D-C9BD9F19F90B | urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:D06689DE-526F-4CFA-8BEB-9FB38850754A Corresponding author: Isrrael C. Gómez (isrrael.gomez@yahoo.com) Academic editor: Michael Sharkey  |  Received 8 May 2009  |  Accepted 9 July 2009  |  Published 10 July 2009 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0B3C6DA3-9D2B-48C2-AEE0-5C86D73ABFBC Citation: Gómez IC, Sääksjärvi IE, Veijalainen A, Broad GR (2009) Two new species of Xanthopimpla (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from Western Amazonia, with a revised key to the Neotropical species of the genus. ZooKeys 14: 55-65. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.14.193 Abstract Xanthopimpla Saussure, 1892 is one of the largest genera of the family Ichneumonidae. he genus is very species rich in Indo-Australia but poorly represented in the Neotropical region. In this paper two morpho- logically very distinctive species of the genus, X. amazonica sp. n. Gómez, Sääksjärvi & Veijalainen, and X. jussilai sp. n. Veijalainen, Sääksjärvi & Broad, are described and illustrated. he new species have been collected in the Peruvian and Ecuadorean Amazonia. A revised key to the Neotropical species of the genus is provided. Xanthopimpla aurita Krieger is recorded for the irst time from Peru. Keywords Taxonomy, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae, Xanthopimpla, New species, Amazonia ZooKeys 14: 55-65 (2009) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.14.193 www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys Copyright Isrrael C. Gómez et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Launched to accelerate biodiversity research A peer-reviewed open-access journal RESEARCH ARTICLE