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Enicospilus perlatus Shestakov

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

Enicospilus perlatus Shestakov 1926. Holotype: in Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. Type locality:


   

Saudi Arabia. Photographs © Hathal M. Al Dhafer (King Saud University, Riyadh).


Distribution

Afghanistan, Canary Islands, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkmenistan.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Gadallah N.S., Soliman A.M., Rousse P. & Al Dhafer H.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. European Journal of Taxonomy 365: 1–69. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.365

Gauld, I.D. and 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. 287pp.

Shestakov, A. 1926. Tabula diagnostica et species novae palaearcticae generis Enicospilus Stephen. Konowia. 5:25-32.

Credits

Photographs © Hathal M. Al Dhafer (King Saud University, Riyadh).

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

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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