Enicospilus capensis
Authors/Creators
- 1. Entomology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 49 A 46 DDD- 80 CD- 45 FF-BC 27 - B 37 DBACF 5 E 58 & Corresponding author: n _ gadallah @ hotmail. com
- 2. Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. & Zoology Department, Faculty of Science (Boys), Al-Azhar University, P. O. Box 11884, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt. & Email: amsoliman @ ksu. edu. sa, ammsoliman @ gmail. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 638 A 9208 - CA 78 - 4161 - 91 B 4 - 914 B 531 F 8933
- 3. 38 rue des Primevères, 35160 Le Verger, France. & Email: rousse. pascal @ wanadoo. fr & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: B 06 C 2640 - 700 A- 429 B-AA 2 F- 1 BE 09251 C 845
- 4. Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia. & Email: hdhafer @ ksu. edu. sa & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 6117 A 7 D 3 - 26 AF- 478 F-BFE 7 - 1 C 4 E 1 D 3 F 3 C 68
Description
Enicospilus capensis (Thunberg, 1822)
Figs 3D, 6D, 10D, 14D, 18D, 23A, 29D
Ichneumon capensis Thunberg, 1822: 314, ♀.
Ophion antancarus Saussure, 1892: 21.
Henicospilus praedator Enderlein, 1921: 28, ♀
Henicospilus incarinatus Enderlein, 1921: 30, ♂
Henicospilus euxoae Wilkinson, 1928: 261, ♀.
Enicospilus obnoxius Seyrig, 1935: 75, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 16–19; F 11–15; ML 0.2–0.3; CT 1.7–2.2; OOL 0.2; POL 0.8; FI 0.47–0.5; Fl1–2 1.5–1.7; Fl20 1.5–2.0; AI 0.4–0.8; CI 0.35–0.5; ICI 0.43–0.6; SDI 1.28–1.5; NI 1.8.
Body reddish brown overall, orbits and gena pale yellow; mandible slightly twisted, with inner groove along outer margin that is lined with a fringe of pale setae, lower tooth slightly more than 2.0 × as long as upper tooth; clypeus convex in profile, with ventral margin in-turned ventrally; face subquadrate, 0.85–1.1 × as high as wide; antenna with 46–54 flagellomeres; mesopleuron and metapleuron closely and finely punctate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct, anterior area of propodeum nearly smooth to transversely finely shagreened, posterior area coarsely rugose; proximal sclerite dome-shaped; central scelrite small, not uniformly sclerotized; distal sclerite transverse comma-shaped; hind wing with 7 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely setose.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 2 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), sweep net, on Cactus, 17 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 4 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 4, 15 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 5, 15 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap (House), 16 Feb. 2014, leg. Fadl H. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Abha), light trap 4, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Deirab (Riyadh), light trap, 21− 25 Oct. 1985, leg.? (KSMA); 4 ♀♀, Deirab (Riyadh), light trap, 4 Nov. 1985, leg.? (KSMA); 1 ♀, Deirab (Riyadh), light trap, 1 Dec. 1985, leg.? (KSMA); 1 ♀: Al Waseel (Riyadh), light trap, 8 Dec. 2012, leg. Sonbati S. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Al Kharg (Riyadh), light trap, 22 Feb. 2004, leg. Al Oqeal Y. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Al Amaryiah (Riyadh), light trap, 28 Jan. 2008, leg. Boy Valenza D. (KSMA).
Previous records from Saudi Arabia
Asir (Gauld & Mitchell 1978).
BOLD Identification Number
AAI5183.
Distribution
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen (Gauld & Mitchell 1978), China, Ethiopia, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka (Yu et al. 2012), Madagascar (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Madl 1996).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Thunberg
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Enicospilus
- Species
- capensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Enicospilus capensis (Thunberg, 1822) sec. Gadallah, Soliman, Rousse & Dhafer, 2017
References
- Thunberg C. P. 1822. Ichneumonoidea, Insecta Hymenoptera illustrate. Memoires de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de Saint Petersbourg 8: 249 - 281.
- Saussure H. de. 1892. In: Grandidier A. (ed.) Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Vol. 20: Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. L'Imprimerie Nationale, Paris. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 39794875 [accessed 3 Oct. 2017].
- Enderlein G. 1921. Beitrage zur aussereuropaischer Ichneumoniden 5. Uber die Familie Ophionidae. Entomological Society of Stettin 82: 1 - 45.
- Wilkinson D. S. 1928. New parasitic Hymenoptera. Bulletin of Entomological Research 19: 261 - 265. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 0007485300020599
- Seyrig A. 1935. Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Tome III. Fascicule 18. Hymenoptera, II. Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae, Pimplinae, Tryphoninae et Ophioninae. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 4: 1 - 100.
- Gauld I. D. & Mitchell P. A. 1978. The Taxonomy, Distribution and Host Preferences of African Parasitic Wasps of the Subfamily Ophioninae. CAB: Slough. Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, London.
- Yu D. S., Achterberg C. van & Horstmann K. 2012. Taxapad 2012, Ichneumonoidea 2011. Database on flash-drive. Ottawa / Ontario, Canada. Available from http: // www. taxapad. com [accessed 27 Jan. 2016].
- Madl M. 1996. Ephialtinae und Ophioninae von der Insel Sainte Marie (Madagaskar) (Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae). Linzer biologische Beitrage 28 (2): 835 - 838.