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Enicospilus ruandensis Roman

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

Enicospilus ruandensis Roman, 1924: 8. Lectotype female in (NR, Stockholm), designated by Townes & Townes (1973: 183). Type locality: Rwanda.

Junior synonym of Enicospilus rundiensis Bischoff, 1915. Synonymy by Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.



Distribution

Rwanda.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Bischoff, H. 1915. Zoologische Ergebnisse der Professor Hans Myerschen Expedition nach Ostafrika 1911. 1. Verzeichnis und Beschreibungen der gesammelten Hymenopteren. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 7: 471-477.

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 by Tapani Hopkins and Emil Osterman CC BY-NC 4.0 Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).

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