Enicospilus capensis
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 capensis

description: Enicospilus capensis (Thunberg, 1822)
Figs 3D, 6D, 10D, 14D, 18D, 23A, 29D
Ichneumon capensis Thunberg, 1822: 314, ♀.
Ophion antancarus Saussure, 1892: 21.
Henicospilus praedator Enderlein, 1921: 28, ♀
Henicospilus incarinatus Enderlein, 1921: 30, ♂
Henicospilus euxoae Wilkinson, 1928: 261, ♀.
Enicospilus obnoxius Seyrig, 1935: 75, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 16–19; F 11–15; ML 0.2–0.3; CT 1.7–2.2; OOL 0.2; POL 0.8; FI 0.47–0.5; Fl1–2 1.5–1.7; Fl20 1.5–2.0; AI 0.4–0.8; CI 0.35–0.5; ICI 0.43–0.6; SDI 1.28–1.5; NI 1.8.
Body reddish brown overall, orbits and gena pale yellow; mandible slightly twisted, with inner groove along outer margin that is lined with a fringe of pale setae, lower tooth slightly more than 2.0 × as long as upper tooth; clypeus convex in profile, with ventral margin in-turned ventrally; face subquadrate, 0.85–1.1 × as high as wide; antenna with 46–54 flagellomeres; mesopleuron and metapleuron closely and finely punctate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct, anterior area of propodeum nearly smooth to transversely finely shagreened, posterior area coarsely rugose; proximal sclerite dome-shaped; central scelrite small, not uniformly sclerotized; distal sclerite transverse comma-shaped; hind wing with 7 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely setose.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 2 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), sweep net, on Cactus, 17 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 4 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 4, 15 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 5, 15 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap (House), 16 Feb. 2014, leg. Fadl H. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Abha), light trap 4, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Deirab (Riyadh), light trap, 21− 25 Oct. 1985, leg.? (KSMA); 4 ♀♀, Deirab (Riyadh), light trap, 4 Nov. 1985, leg.? (KSMA); 1 ♀, Deirab (Riyadh), light trap, 1 Dec. 1985, leg.? (KSMA); 1 ♀: Al Waseel (Riyadh), light trap, 8 Dec. 2012, leg. Sonbati S. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Al Kharg (Riyadh), light trap, 22 Feb. 2004, leg. Al Oqeal Y. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Al Amaryiah (Riyadh), light trap, 28 Jan. 2008, leg. Boy Valenza D. (KSMA).
Previous records from Saudi Arabia
Asir (Gauld & Mitchell 1978).
BOLD Identification Number
AAI5183.
Distribution
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen (Gauld & Mitchell 1978), China, Ethiopia, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka (Yu et al. 2012), Madagascar (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Madl 1996).
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 16, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291