Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990

Shimizu, So, Broad, Gavin R. & Maeto, Kaoru, 2020, Integrative taxonomy and analysis of species richness patterns of nocturnal Darwin wasps of the genus Enicospilus Stephens (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) in Japan, ZooKeys 990, pp. 1-144 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.990.55542

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7B73642C-278D-40F8-9091-B26213C9A704

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990
status

 

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

SuperFamily

Ichneumonoidea

Family

Ichneumonidae

SubFamily

Ophioninae

Genus

Enicospilus

Loc

Enicospilus puncticulatus Tang, 1990

Shimizu, So, Broad, Gavin R. & Maeto, Kaoru 2020
2020
Loc

Enicospilus puncticulatus

Tang 1990
1990