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Enicospilus scenescens (Tosquinet)
(Life:
Kingdom: Metazoa
(animals); Phylum: Arthropoda;
Class: Hexapoda;
Order: Hymenoptera;
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae;
Subfamily: Ophioninae; Genus: Enicospilus)
Ophion
scenescens Tosquinet, 189: 375. Lectotype
male in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin (MNHU),
designated by Townes & Townes (1973: 183). Type locality:
?Togo.
Ophion (Allocamptus) infuscatus Tosquinet, 1896:
373. Holotype
male in Zoologisches Museum, Berlin (MNHU),
designated by Townes & Townes (1973: 183). Type locality:
Ghana. Junior primary homonym of Ophion infuscatus Taschenberg,
1875. Synonymy by Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.
Allocamptus
rapax Seyrig, 1935: 50. Lectotype female in Paris (MNHN),
designated by Townes & Townes 1973 184.
Type locality: Ethiopia.
Synonymy by Townes & Townes, 1973: 184.
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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, Benin, Central African Republic, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya,
Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia,
Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda,
Zimbabwe. |
Biology
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Host: Anomis leona
(Noctuidae). |
DNA
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BOLD Identification Number - ADB5118. |
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.
Seyrig,
A. 1935. Mission scientifique de l'Omo. Tome III. Fascicule 18.
Hymenoptera, II. Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae, Pimplinae, Tryphoninae et
Ophioninae. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN).
4:1-100.
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 sesamiae |
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