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Enicospilus bicoloratus Cameron 1912

  • 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 bicoloratus Cameron, 1912

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

E. bicoloratus Cameron, 1912: 388, ♂.

Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)

B 19; F 12–15; ML 0.4; CT 1.4; OOL 0.1; POL 0.5; FI 0.5–0.6; Fl1–2 1.6–1.8; Fl20 2.3–2.6; AI 0.45– 0.95; CI 0.35–0.6; ICI 0.4–0.6; SDI 1.2–1.4; NI 2.6.

Body yellowish brown to orange, orbits paler; mandible with upper tooth 1.1–1.5 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus convex in profile, with ventral margin in-turned; face 1.2 × as high as wide; antenna with 50–56 flagellomeres; mesopleuron and metapleuron finely densely punctate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct, anterior area of propodeum punctate or nearly so, posterior area coarsely

striate; proximal sclerite triangular and moderately extended distally; central sclerite small, circular and uniformly sclerotized; hind wing with 5–7 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia not spinose.

Material examined

SAUDI ARABIA: 1 ♀, Wadi Ghanuna (Al Baha), sweep net, 12 May 2011, leg. Fadl et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 5, 21 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 17 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA).

Distribution

Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Yu et al. 2012), Zimbabwe (Rousse & van Noort 2014); Saudi Arabia (new record).

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 pages 11-12, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291

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References

  • Cameron P. 1912. On the Hymenoptera from Belgian Congo in the Congo Museum, Tervueren. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 56: 357 - 401. Available from http: // biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 12848247 [accessed 3 Oct. 2017].
  • 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].
  • 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