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Enicospilus rufus (Brullé)

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

Ophion rufus Brullé 1846. Holotype: in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN). Type locality:

Ophion longescutellatus Kriechbaumer 1894. (junior synonym) (Synonomy by Gauld & Mitchell 1978)

Distribution

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Congo, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Madagscar, Mauritius, Nigeria, Reunion, Rodriques Island, Seychelles, South Africa.

Biology

Hosts: Ctenoplusia limbirena (Noctuidae), Trigonodes hyppasia (Noctuidae)

References

Brullé, M.A. 1846. Tome Quatrième. Des Hyménoptères. Les Ichneumonides. In: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau A. "Histoire Naturelles des Insectes." Paris. 680 pp. pp. 56-324. (copied 55-324+index) missing Braconidae

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.

Kriechbaumer, J. 1894. Hymenoptera Ichneumonidae a medico nautico Dr. Joh. Brauns in itinere secundo ad oras Africae lecta. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift. 39:297-318.

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

HOLOTYPE Ophion longescutellatus Photographs © 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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