Enicospilus mauritii Saussure 1892
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Description
Enicospilus mauritii (Saussure, 1892)
(Fig. 15 h)
Amesospilus rectecarinatus Enderlein, 1921: 20; Henicospilus leionotus longicornis Morley, 1912a: 173; Ophion mauritii Sau-
ssure, 1892: pl. 14
Diagnosis. Species with inter-ocellar area black, Rs+2r distinctly sinuate and no central sclerite on fore wing (Fig. 13 h).
Description. Gauld & Mitchell (1978).
Host records. Chilo sacchariphagus (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Tetramoera schistaceana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Sesamia nonagrioides, S. calamistis and Mythimna loreyi (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).
Comments. One of the examined specimens (MHNSD 2809) is much darker than the normal form. The meso- and metasoma show large testaceous to black markings, with the propodeum and tergites I-II uniformly black. It otherwise totally agrees with the description of Gauld & Mitchell (1978). We consider it to be a melanic form of E. mauritii, perhaps collected at high altitude.
Distribution records. Reunion (Bordage 1914). Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zambia (Gauld & Mitchell 1978).
Material examined. 1Ƥ (MHNSD 2809), locality and date of collection unknown; 13 Petite Ile, I.2006, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ St Denis / Colorado, I.2009, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ St Paul / Le Guillaume, I.2006, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ Trois Bassins / route forestière des tamarins, I.2005, leg. IDR (light trap).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ichneumonidae
- Genus
- Enicospilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hymenoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Saussure
- Species
- mauritii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Enicospilus mauritii Saussure, 1892 sec. Rousse & Villemant, 2012
References
- Saussure, H. de (1892) Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. In A. Grandidier (Ed), Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, France, pp. 590.
- Enderlein, G. (1921) Beitrage zur Kenntnis aussereuropaischer Ichneumoniden V. Uber die Familie Ophionidae. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 82, 3 - 45.
- Morley, C. (1912 a) No. XII. - Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 15, 169 - 179.
- Gauld, I. D. & Mitchell, P. A. (1978) The taxonomy, distribution and host preferences of African parasitic wasps of the subfamily Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Slough, England, 287 pp.
- Bordage, E. (1914) Notes biologiques recueillies a l'Ile de la Reunion. II. Sur la biologie et l'ethologie de divers Hymenopteres. Bulletin Scientifique de France et de Belgique, 47 (4), 377 - 412.