Enicospilus betanimenus ( Saussure, 1892 )

Rousse, Pascal & Villemant, Claire, 2012, Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species, Zootaxa 3278, pp. 1-57 : 35

Enicospilus betanimenus ( Saussure, 1892)

( Fig. 15 b)

Henicospilus madagascarienscis Szépligeti, 1906: 136 ; Henicospilus trinotatus Szépligeti, 1908a: 46 ; Ophion betanimenus Saussure, 1892 : pl. 15

Diagnosis. betanimenus and transvaalensis species groups comprise, along with E. hova , three closely related species in the Mascarene Archipelago. The structure of the alar sclerites is rather constant for each species.

Description. Gauld & Mitchell (1978).

Host records. Achaea faber , Dysgonia pudica , Dysgonia triplocyma , Heliophisma klugii and Tatorinia rufipennis ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ).

Distribution records. Reunion. Widely distributed throughout subsaharan Africa and Madagascar.

Material examined. 13 St Louis, XI.2009, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ same locality, II.2009, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ La Possession / Grande Chaloupe, II.2009, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ Bras Panon / Bras des Lianes, XII.2008, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ same locality, I.2008, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ St Louis / Les Makes, alt. 1190m, X.2007, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ same locality, IV.2006, leg. IDR (light trap).

Figures

FIGURE 15. Fore wing details of Enicospilus spp. a: E. angustatus. b: E. betanimenus. c: E. dolosus. d: E. dubius. e: E. grandiflavus. f: E. helvolus. g: E. hova. h: E. mauritii. i: E. rufus. j: E. ruscus. k: E. sesamiae. l: E. transvaalensis.