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Saudi
Arabia. Photographs © Hathal M.
Al Dhafer (King
Saud University, Riyadh).
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Distribution
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Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Democratic Republic of
Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Reunion,
Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania,
Togo, Uganda. |
Biology
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Hosts: Anomis leona
(Noctuidae), Chrysodeixis chalcites (Noctuidae) and
Plusia sp. (Lepidoptera: Plusiidae) (Gauld
& Mitchell 1978). |
DNA
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BOLD Identification Number - ABD4296. |
References
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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. & 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
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Photographs
© Hathal M. Al Dhafer (King
Saud University, Riyadh).
Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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Next genus:
Eremotylus
Next species:
Enicospilus eirmosus |
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