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Enicospilus Stephens

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

Enicospilus Stephens 1835. Type species: Ophion combustus Gauld 1981.

Enicospilus abessyniensis to Enicospilus furius  

Enicospilus glyphanosus to Enicospilus quietus

Enicospilus recavus to Enicospilus xandarus

Distribution

 Worldwide

Biology

 Koinobiont endoparasitoids of Lepidoptera.

Reference

 Stephens, J.F. 1835. Illustrations of British Entomology. Mandibulata. Vol. VII. Baldwin & Cradock, London. 306 pp. [Index, list of plates and errata published in 1845.]

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