HomeWasp classificationExpeditionsLinksFigWebBiodiversity ExplorerPermits

 

Enicospilus mauritii (Saussure)

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

Ophion mauritii Saussure 1892. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality:

Distribution

Enicospilus mauritii_map

Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Zambia.

Biology

Hosts: Leucania loreyi (Hadeninae), Olethreutes schistaceanus (Olithreutinae), Procherata sacchariphaga (Brochodiddae), Procerata venostata (Brochodiddae), Sesamia calamistis (Amphipyrinae), Sesamia inferens (Amphipyrinae), Speia vuteria (Amphipyrinae), Tetramoera schistaceana (Olethreutinae).

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.

Saussure, H. de. 1892. Hymenopteres. In: Grandidier A. "Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar. 20." Paris. 590 pp.

Credits

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
  Next genus: Eremotylus               Next species: Enicospilus microspilus

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

Copyright 2004-2025 Iziko Museums of South Africa

customisable counter