described in this study. The subfamily Pimplinae and the genus Hymenoepimecis were recognized using Gauld (1991) and

The Pimplinae is the most biologically diverse group of Ichneumonidae and it is associated with a wide range of hosts (Gauld 1991). Hymenoepimecis Viereck, 1912, includes nine species most of them known from Neotropical region, two from Brazil. It belongs to the Polysphincta genus-group (Gauld & Dubois 2006) and can be characterized by presence of a pocket-like structure on the pronotum. This genus includes koinobiont parasitoids of adult spiders with some species from tropical America humid forest waiting for description (Gaul