Enicospilus nervellator Aubert 1966
Creators: name: Gadallah, Neveen S.
name: Soliman, Ahmed M.
name: Rousse, Pascal
name: Al Dhafer, Hathal M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Enicospilus
Enicospilus nervellator

description: Enicospilus nervellator Aubert, 1966
Figs 4A, 7C, 11C, 15C, 19C, 24C, 30C, 33A
Enicospilus nervellator Aubert, 1966: 43, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 17–18; F 11–15; ML 0.1–0.25; CT 1.7–2.1; OOL 0.12, POL 0.6; FI 0.5; Fl1–2 1.7–1.9; Fl20 1.2–1.5; AI 0.54–0.65; ICI 0.6–0.8; CI 0.3–0.4; SDI 1.38–1.5.
Body reddish brown to ferruginous overall, T1, T2 and most of T3 bright red, the following parts pale yellow: face (except red middle, extending from fore ocellus to base of clypeus), posterior margin of head broadly, vertex, almost all pronotum, a middle U-shaped area on mesoscutum extending to its posterior margin as well as lateral margin, posterior half of propodeum, tegula, scutellum (except basally), subalar prominence, upper and lower areas of mesopleuron, lower half of metapleuron; mandible with upper tooth 2.0 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus flat in profile, with ventral margin straight to truncate; face subquadrate, 1.1–1.25 × as high as wide; antenna with 50–52 flagellomeres; mesopleuron punctate, metapleuron shallowly puncto-striate; basal transverse carina of propodeum very weak but complete, anterior area of propodeum sparsely punctate, posterior area superficially rugose; proximal sclerite yellow (weakly sclerotized) dome-shaped, central sclerite longitudinal and weakly sclerotized; hind wing with 6–7 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia considerably spinose; outer mid (and sometimes hind) tibial spur distinctly less than 0.4 × as long as inner spur.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 1 ♀, Rhodet Khorim (Riyadh), light trap (B), 6 Mar. 2012, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 1 ♀, Ummul Hammam (Riyadh), light trap, 10 Feb. 2010, leg. Abdel-Azeem M. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Al Khararah (Riyadh), light trap, 22 Feb. 2012, leg. Al Gharabawy et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Al Khararah (Riyadh), light trap, 7 Mar. 2012, leg. Al Dyrahim et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Rawdet Farshet Sheaal (Riyadh), light trap 1, 26 Jan. 2016, leg. Al Gharabawy et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Rawdet Farshet Sheaal (Riyadh), light trap 10, 26 Jan. 2016, leg. Al Gharabawy et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Rawdet Farshet Sheaal (Riyadh), light trap 11, 26 Jan. 2016, leg. Al Gharabawy et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Wadi Ghaihab (Riyadh), light trap, 27 Jan. 2016, leg. Al Gharabawy et al. (KSMA); 19 ♀♀, Rawdet Al Harmalyiah (Riyadh), light trap 1, 2 Feb. 2016, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 49 ♂♂, 104 ♀♀, Rawdet Al Harmalyiah (Riyadh), light trap 3, 2 Feb. 2016, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, 53 ♀♀, Rawdet Al Harmalyiah (Riyadh), light trap 5, 2 Feb. 2016, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Rawdet Al Harmalyiah (Riyadh), Malaise trap 4, 2 Feb. 2016, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Wadi Hanifa (Riyadh), light trap, 4 Feb. 2016, leg. Al Dhafer (KSMA); 1 ♀, Wadi Sabean (Asir), light trap, 22 Feb. 2016, leg. Fadl et al. (KSMA).
Previous records from Saudi Arabia
Jeddah, Najd, Rub’al Khali (Gauld & Mitchell 1978).
BOLD Identification Number
ADB4509.
Distribution
Algeria, Saudi Arabia (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Yu et al. 2012), Egypt (Shaumar 1966; Yu et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Rousse, Pascal & Al Dhafer, Hathal 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, pp. 1-69 in European Journal of Taxonomy 365 on page 25, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291