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Enicospilus betanimenus (Saussure)

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

Ophion betanimenus Saussure, 1892. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality:

Distribution

Enicospilus betanimenus_map

Angola, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Nigeria, Reunion, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda.

Biology

 Hosts: Achaea faber (Noctuidae), Dysgonia pudica (Noctuidae), Dysgonia triplocyma (Noctuidae), Heliophisma klugii (Noctuidae), Tatorinia rufipennis (Noctuidae).

References

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. & Villemant, C. 2012. Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.

Credits

 Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
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Citation: van Noort, S. 2025. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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