Enicospilus pacificus
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 pacificus

description: Enicospilus pacificus (Holmgren, 1868)
Figs 4E, 8A, 12A, 16A, 20A, 26A, 31A
Ophion pacificus Holmgren, 1868:?, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 17–20; F 11–17; ML 0.26–0.3; CT 1.2–1.7; OOL 0.1, POL 0.7; FI 0.55; Fl1–2 1.6–2.3; Fl 20 2.1–2.3; AI 0.45–0.7; ICI 0.45–0.57; CI 0.31–0.41; SDI 1.38; NI 2.0.
Body reddish brown, but antennae, legs, posterior margin of eye, frons and metasoma are lighter; mandible with upper tooth 1.2 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus convex in profile, with ventral margin in-turned; face 1.17–1.3 × as high as wide; antenna with 57–62 flagellomeres; mesopleuron punctostriate, metapleuron densely coarsely punctate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct; anterior area of propodeum superficially punctate and densely pubescent, posterior area finely longitudinally rugose especially medially, densely clothed with fine, suberect pale pubescence; proximal sclerite rather narrow, comma-shaped with very long distal extension, central sclerite small, uniformly sclerotized; hind wing with 5–8 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia not spinose.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 5, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 2, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al.; 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Al Kharj (Loulou Farm), sweep net, 26 Nov. 2008, leg. Hassan (EFC), 1 ♂, Education Farm (Riyadh), sweep net, 19 May 2009, leg. Al Sobaae & Mosbet (KSMA); 1 ♂, Thee Ain (Al Baha), sweep net, 10 Mar. 2012, leg. El Torkey A. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 3, Nov. 2013, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 6, 15 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Wadi Rida (Asir), sweep net, 24 Feb. 2014, leg. Sharaf et al. (KSMA); 2 ♂♂, Wadi Rida (Asir), light trap, 24 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♂♂, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 21 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 27 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 27 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 1, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 3, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 1, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 11 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 5 Mar. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), Malaise trap 8, 8 May 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 17−18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA).
BOLD Identification Number
ACX7776.
Distribution
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Rowanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda (Gauld & Mitchell 1978); Saudi Arabia (new record).
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 pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291