Enicospilus eastopi Gauld & Mitchell, 1981

Pham, Nhi Thi, Pham, Phu Van, Matsumoto, Rikio, Shimizu, So & Broad, Gavin R., 2023, A review of the genus Enicospilus Stephens (Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of ten new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 873 (1), pp. 1-151 : 48

Enicospilus eastopi Gauld & Mitchell, 1981

Fig. 22

Enicospilus eastopi Gauld & Mitchell, 1981: 266 ; holotype ♀ from Malaysia ( NHMUK).

Diagnosis

Interocellar area reddish brown; clypeus weakly to moderately convex, ventral margin acute; mandible twisted ca 20°, outer surface without a diagonal setose groove; fore wing fenestra short, with proximal and distal sclerites, proximal sclerite separated from proximal margin of fenestra by more than its maximum width, marginal cell sparsely setose proximally, vein 2r&RS strongly sinuous and thickened proximally, abruptly narrowed and straight distally, SDI less than 0.9.

Material examined

VIETNAM • 1 ♀; Vinh Phuc Province, Tam Dao NP ; 8 May 2012; Hoang V.T. leg.; light trap; IEBR • 1 ♀; Lam Dong Province, Bidoup - Nui Ba NP ; 3 Jun. 2013; Hoang V.T. leg.; light trap; IEBR • 1 ♀; Gia Lai Province, Kon Chu Rang NP ; 27 May 2019; Nguyen V.T. leg.; light trap; IEBR • 1 ♀; Gia Lai Province, Kon Ka Kinh NP ; 28 Apr. 2022; Pham V.P. leg.; light trap; IEBR .

Distribution

Previously known from Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines ( Gauld & Mitchell 1981; Yu et al. 2016). These are the first records of this species from Vietnam.

Figures

Fig. 22. Enicospilus eastopi Gauld & Mitchell, 1981, ♀ (IEBR). a. Habitus. b. Head, frontal view. c. Head, dorsal view. d. Head, lateral view. e. Mesosoma, lateral view. f. Central part of fore wing. Scale bars = 1.0 mm.