Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.990.55542 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/72FE5683-E935-5E11-A859-C168CE04FA5F |
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Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990 |
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Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990 View in CoL Figure 37 View Figure 37
Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990: 128; HT ♀ from China, FAFU, not examined.
Specimens examined.
Total of 31 specimens (24♀♀7♂♂): Japan (22♀♀6♂♂), Taiwan (2♀♀1♂).
Distribution.
Oriental region ( Tang 1990); new to the Eastern Palaearctic region.
Newly recorded from Japan.
JAPAN: [ Hokkaidô]; [Hokuriku] Niigata; [ Kantô-Kôshin] Tochigi, Nagano, Yamanashi, and Saitama; [Kinki] Hyôgo; [Shikoku] Kôchi; [ Kyûshû] Fukuoka.
Bionomics.
Unknown.
Differential diagnosis.
This species is most similar to E. pseudopuncticulatus sp. nov., but easily distinguished by the rounded central sclerite and more or less curved fore wing vein 1cu-a, as in Fig. 37F View Figure 37 . Furthermore, E. puncticulatus resembles E. melanocarpus , but can be distinguished by the usually separated proximal and distal sclerites (Fig. 37F View Figure 37 ) (proximal and distal sclerites strongly confluent in E. melanocarpus , as in Fig. 28F View Figure 28 ) and entirely testaceous metasoma (Fig. 37A View Figure 37 ) (posterior metasomal segments almost always black in E. melanocarpus , as in Fig. 28A View Figure 28 ).
Remarks.
Specimens with various shapes of sclerites of the fore wing fenestra but which are very similar in sculpture are identified as this species by the key provided by Tang (1990). It has proved impossible to segregate morphospecies based on discrete differences in sclerites, and our DNA barcodes differ by less than 1%; if E. puncticulatus represents a species complex, it seems that the CO1 gene is not useful for delimiting species in this complex.
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Ichneumonoidea |
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Ophioninae |
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Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990
Shimizu, So, Broad, Gavin R. & Maeto, Kaoru 2020 |
Enicospilus puncticulatus
Tang 1990 |