Key to Orientospilus species

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

(after Gauld & Mitchell, 1978)

1. Malar space 0.2 times as broad as basal mandibular width (Fig. a); posterior ocellus separated from orbit by 0.4 times its maximum diameter (Fig. b); wings yellowish, distally with margins infumate and with discosubmarginal cell bearing a black spot (Fig. c); Madagascar ... Orientospilus melasma Townes

Malar space 1.0 times as broad as basal mandibular width (Fig. A); posterior ocellus separated from orbit by 1.0 times its maximum diameter (Fig. B); wings blackish (Fig. C); eastern Africa ... Orientospilus capitatus Gauld & Mitchell

References

Gauld, I.D. 1979. An analysis of the classification of the Ophion genus group (Ichneumonidae). Systematic Entomology 5(1980): 59-82

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. & van Noort, S. 2014. Afrotropical Ophioninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae): an update of Gauld & Mitchell's revision, including two new species and an interactive matrix identification key. ZooKeys 456: 59–73. doi:10.3897/zookeys.456.8140

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

Key to Orientospilus species

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