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Enicospilus brevicornis

  • 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 brevicornis (Masi, 1939)

Figs 3C, 6C, 10C, 14C, 18C, 22C, 29C

Amesospilus brevicornis Masi, 1939: 32, ♀.

Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)

B 13–17; F 11–14; ML 0.3; CT 1.4–1.5; OOL 0.1; POL 0.58; FI 0.5–0.55; Fl1–2 1.7–1.9; Fl20 1.2–1.6; AI 0.4–1.0; CI 0.15–0.25; ICI 0.5–0.7; SDI 1.1–1.2; NI 2.0.

Body reddish brown overall, with upper and ventral sides of metasoma (in profile) black starting from T3; yellowish white in the following parts: posterior orbits of eyes, very thin along orbits (except upper third); pterostigma and most of Rs+2 r light red in colour; mandible with upper tooth subequal to lower one; clypeus slightly convex in profile, with ventral margin slightly in-turned; face 1.3 × as high as broad; antenna with 43–47 flagellomeres; mesopleuron and metapleuron puncto-striate and longitudinally striate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct, anterior area nearly smooth to finely transversely sculptured, posterior area concentrically striate; proximal sclerite triangular, fully sclerotized; central sclerite totally absent; hind wing with 7–8 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely setose.

Material examined

SAUDI ARABIA: 10 ♀♀, Raydah (Abha), sweep net, on olive, 26 Aug. 2014 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.); 3 ♀♀, same data but on Juniper (EFC); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Abha), light trap 4, 27 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Abha), light trap 7, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Abha), light trap 8, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Abha), light trap (House), 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Wadi Bisha (K. Mushayt), sweep net, 27 Apr. 2014, leg. Sharaf et al. (KSMA).

Previous records from Saudi Arabia

Asir (Gauld & Mitchell 1978).

BOLD Identification Number

ADB3412.

Distribution

Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa (Gauld & Mitchell 1978), Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Sudan, Uganda, Yemen (Yu et al. 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Rousse, Pascal & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2017, The genus Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) in Saudi Arabia, with twelve new species records and the description of five new species, pp. 1-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 365 on page 12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291

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References

  • Masi L. 1939. Hymenoptera, Chalcididae, Cynipidae, Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Bethylidae. Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana 3 (2): 21 - 44.
  • 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].