Enicospilus sondrae, Gauld, 1988

FERNÁNDEZ-TRIANA, JOSÉ L., 2005, The taxonomy and biogeography of Cuban Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Zootaxa 1007 (1), pp. 1-60 : 50

31. E. sondrae Gauld ( Fig. 10n )

Enicospilus sondrae Gauld, 1988: 283 . Holotype ♀, USA (AEIC).

As for E. neotropicus , this species had previously been recorded only from Dominican Republic, Jamaica and southern Florida ( Gauld, 1988). The specimen found in Cuban collections is then the first but otherwise expected record to the country.

According to Gauld (1988), E. sondrae is closely related to E. howdenorum but can be easily separate because of its centrally incrassate Rs+2r and the hairs of terminal sternites in males (7th sternite with long erect hairs arranged in rows, the sternite glabrous centrally in E. sondrae ; 7–9th sternites with scattered fine and semidecumbent in E. howdenorum ). Based on the distribution, the same author has suggested that this species­complex may have arisen on the older Caribbean islands.

MATERIAL EXAMINED: EC. HG: Las Mulas , Sierra Cristal, Sagua de Tánamo, VI­ 1959, P. Alayo (1 ♀, MNHNCu) .

Figures

FIGURE 10: Fore wings of Cuban Enicospilus. a: glabratus (Say), b: carlota Gauld, c: trilineatus (Brullé), d: teremari sp. nov. e: cressoni Hooker, f: neotropicus Hooker, g: guatemalensis (Cameron), h: cubensis (Norton), i: iangauldi sp. nov., j: gallegosi Gauld, k: fernaldi Hooker, l: flavus (Fabricius), m: woldai Gauld, n: sondrae Gauld, o: liesneri Gauld. p: grilloi sp. nov., q: wahli sp. nov., r: cheosi sp. nov., s: purgatus (Say), t: flavoscutellatus (Brullé), u: howdenorum Gauld, v: hansonorum sp. nov.