Enicospilus odax Gauld 1978
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 odax

description: Enicospilus odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978
Figs 4C, 7E, 11E, 15E, 19E, 25B, 30E
Enicospilus odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978: 137, ♀.
Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)
B 16–30; F 14–20; ML 0.2; CT 1.3; OOL 0.04, POL 0.6; FI 0.6–0.66; Fl1–2 1.5–1.6; Fl20 1.6–2.0; AI 0.75; ICI 0.47–0.5; CI 0.28–0.36; SDI 1.4–1.45; NI 2.8.
Relatively large-sized insects, body including antennae and legs reddish brown, vertex and orbits pale yellow to whitish; mandible with upper and lower teeth subequal; clypeus flat to hardly convex in profile, with ventral margin truncate; face 1.2–1.5 × as high as wide; antenna with 56–58 flagellomeres; mesopleuron closely punctate, metapleuron coarsely striate; posterior transverse carina of propodeum well distinct, anterior area finely and shallowly striate, posterior area coarsely and concentrically striate; fore wing with proximal sclerite acutely arrow-shaped, central sclerite weakly sclerotized; hind wing with 7–8 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely spinose.
Material examined
SAUDI ARABIA: 5 ♀♀, 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap (House), 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al.; 1 specimen (without abdomen), Raydah (Asir), light trap (House), 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al.; 2 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap (House), 17 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Wadi Yabah (Asir), 11 Oct. 2013, light trap, leg. Sonbati et al., (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 21 Feb. 2014 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) (KSMA); 1 ♀, Tamniah Dam (Asir), light trap, 24 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Wadi Rida (Asir), light trap, 24 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 5, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 3 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 2, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 3, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 21 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 2, 8 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 3, 8 Dec. 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 7, 11 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 11 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 27 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 5, 27 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 30 Jan. 2015, 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 5, 8 May 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 31 Jul. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 5 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 5 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA).
Description
Male (7 specimens)
COLOUR. Resembles female but with B 28 and F 20 totally reddish brown, with vertex, orbits and posterior margin of head pale yellowish, pronotum anteriorly light red, T3 – 7 of metasoma black laterally.
HEAD. Mandibles moderately twisted, with two subequal teeth; labrum 0.3 × as high as broad; malar space 0.2 × mandibular base; clypeus nearly smooth, flat to hardly convex in profile as in female, with ventral margin truncate; face finely shallowly punctate; gena slightly constricted behind eyes; lateral ocellus not touching eye; occipital carina complete; antenna with 54 flagellomeres, Fl1 – 2 1.25.
MESOSOMA. Pronotum short, with transverse furrow; mesoscutum finely coriaceous, notauli indistinct; mesopleuron and metapleuron densely setose, but appears as if puncto-striate; basal carina of propodeum strong and complete, anterior area of propodeum finely coriaceous, posterior area coarsely and concentrically striate; postpectal carina complete.
FORE WING. Rs+2 r distinctly thickened medially, straight, fenestra less than length of 3r-m from Rs base; wing sclerites as in female (see diagnosis); hind wing with 1A straight basally, with 9 distal hamuli on R1. Fore tibia sparsely spinose.
METASOMA. Long and slender, S2 ending well before spiracle of T2; thyridium ellipsoid, very shallow and hardly visible.
BOLD Identification Number
ADB4115.
Distribution
Yemen (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Yu et al. 2012); 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 30-31, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.365, http://zenodo.org/record/3838291