Enicospilus oweni Gauld & Mitchell

Enicospilus oweni Gauld & Mitchell 1978. Holotype: in American Entomological Institute, Florida. Type locality:

PARATYPE Enicospilus oweni in Albany Museum, Grahamstown.



PARATYPE Enicospilus oweni in Albany Museum, Grahamstown. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


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

Distribution	Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Yemen.
Biology	Hosts: Anomis leona (Ophiderinae), Diacrisia investigatorum (Arctiinae).
DNA	BOLD Identification Number - ADB4116.
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.
Credits	Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa), or Photographs © Hathal M. Al Dhafer (King Saud University, Riyadh). Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

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