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Enicospilus pallidus (Taschenberg)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae;
Subfamily: Ophioninae; Genus: Enicospilus)
Ophion
pallidus Taschenberg, 1875: 436.
Holotype in (FZLU). Type locality:
Sudan.
Henicospilus damarensis Cameron, 1906: 81.Holotype female in
Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC). Type locality:
South Africa. Synonymy by Townes & Townes,
1973: 182.
Henicospilus sinicarinatus Enderlein, 1918: 219.
Holotype male in Berlin (MNHU). Type locality:
Namibia. Synonymy by Townes & Townes, 1973:
182.
Henicospilus techowi Enderlein, 1918: 219.
Holotype male in Berlin (MNHU). Type locality:
Namibia. Synonymy by Townes & Townes, 1973:
182.
Henicospilus dinteri Enderlein, 1918: 220.
Holotype female in Berlin (MNHU). Type locality:
Namibia. Synonymy by Townes & Townes, 1973:
182.
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Holotype
Enicospilus damarensis Cameron,
1906
in SAMC,
photographs © Aisha Mayekiso (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Saudi
Arabia. Photographs © Hathal M.
Al Dhafer (King
Saud University, Riyadh).
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Distribution
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Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda. Also Oriental
region:
Pakistan. |
Biology
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Host: unknown. |
DNA
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BOLD Identification Number - ACX7776. |
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. 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.
Holmgren,
A.E. 1868. Hymenoptera. Species novas descripsit. Kongliga
Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring jorden. Zoologi 6: 391-442.
Taschenberg,
E.L. 1875. Zur Kenntnis der Gattung Ophion Fab. Zeitschrift für
die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 46: 421-438. |
Credits
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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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