Enicospilus oculator Seyrig 1935
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Description
Enicospilus oculator Seyrig, 1935
Figs. 4B, 7D, 11D, 15D, 19D, 25A, 30D
Enicospilus oculator Seyrig, 1935: 76, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 15–16; F 8–10; ML 0.2; CT 1.7–1.8; OOL 0.1, POL 0.9; FI 0.8–0.92; Fl1–2 1.6–1.8; Fl20 1.8–2.1; AI 0.7–0.86; ICI 0.4–0.58; CI 0.2–0.25; SDI 1.1–1.3; NI 2.9.
Body entirely reddish brown including antennae and legs, with T1 mostly dark to black (except apically), with the following ivory parts: vertex, gena, face (except antennal toruli, middle area of face extending from fore ocellus to base of clypeus), clypeus (except basally, laterally and ventral margin), pronotum (patterned with red medially and laterally), lateral margins of mesoscutum, scutellum (except small reddish area basally), postscutellum, subalar prominences, large, oval shaped markings on anterior and posterior areas of mesopleuron, a large rounded to subquadrate marking on posterior area of metapleuron just above hind coxa, T1 black on basal half; mandible with lower tooth 1.6 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus flat in profile, with ventral margin straight to truncate; face subquadrate, 1.0–1.1 × as high as wide; antenna short, with 44–46 flagellomeres; mesopleuron and metapleuron finely and closely punctate, slightly coarser on mesopleuron; basal transverse carina weakly developed, but complete; anterior area of propodeum shallowly striate, posterior area finely transversely striate; proximal sclerite dark to black roundly triangular, central sclerite very small and circular, weakly sclerotized proximally; hind wing with 5 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely spinose.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 4, 8 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap (House), 13 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 6, 14 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 5, 14 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA).
Previous records from Saudi Arabia
Wadi Shuqub (Horstmann 1981).
BOLD Identification Number
ADB4114.
Distribution
Kenya, South Africa (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Yu et al. 2012), Saudi Arabia (Horstmann 1981; Yu et al. 2012), Zimbabwe (Rousse & van Noort 2014).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Enicospilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Seyrig
- Species
- oculator
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Enicospilus oculator Seyrig, 1935 sec. Gadallah, Soliman, Rousse & Dhafer, 2017
References
- 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.
- Horstmann K. 1981. Insects of Saudi Arabia. Hymenoptera: Fam. Ichneumonidae. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 3: 425 - 434.
- 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].
- Rousse P. & van Noort S. 2014. Afrotropical Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): an update of Gauld and Mitchell's revision, including two new species and an interactive matrix identification key. ZooKeys 456: 59 - 73. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 456.8140