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Enicospilus dolosus (Tosquinet)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Ophioninae; Genus: Enicospilus)

Ophion dolosus Tosquinet 1896. Holotype: in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin. Type locality:

Distribution

Angola, Australia, Brunei, Central African Republic, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopa, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritiana, Mozambique, New Caledon, Nigeria, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Senegal, Society Islands, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Vanuatu, Vietnam.

Biology

Hosts: Anomis leona (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and Haritalodes derogate (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) and kydia (Kydia calicina).

References

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.

Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012. Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 5:1-430.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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