Enicospilus dasychirae Cameron, 1905 Figure 15

Eniscospilus (sic) dasychirae Cameron, 1905a: 123; HT ♀ from Sri Lanka, NHMUK, examined.

Eniscospilus (sic) horsfieldi Cameron, 1905a: 124; HT ♀ from Sri Lanka, NHMUK, examined; synonymised by Townes et al. (1961: 273).

Henicospilus borneensis Szépligeti, 1906: 138; HT ♀ from Borneo, TM, not examined; synonymised by Townes et al. (1961: 273).

Enicospilus nigrimarginalis Cushman, 1937: 311; HT ♂ from Taiwan, DEI, not examined; synonymised by Townes et al. (1961: 274).

Specimens examined.

Total of 49 specimens (44♀♀5♂♂): Japan (8♀♀3♂♂), Sri Lanka (2♀♀), Taiwan (34♀♀2♂♂).

Type series: HT ♀ of Eniscospilus (sic) dasychirae Cameron, 1905, Pundaluoya, SRI LANKA, I.1899, P. Cameron leg. (NHMUK, Type 3b.1267); HT ♀ of Eniscospilus (sic) horsfieldi Cameron, 1905, Peradeniya, SRI LANKA, IX.1902, P. Cameron leg. (NHMUK, Type 3b.1265).

Distribution.

Australasian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions (Yu et al. 2016); this is a predominantly Oriental species.

JAPAN: [ Ryûkyûs] Okinawa (Chiu 1954; Gauld and Mitchell 1981; present study). Though this species is widely distributed in Southeast Asia, it is restricted to Okinawa in Japan.

Bionomics.

Recorded as a parasitoid of several species of Erebidae (subfamily Lymantriinae) (Gauld and Mitchell 1981; Chiu et al. 1984; Chen et al. 2009) and Noctuidae (Tang 1990), although there are no host records from Japan.

Differential diagnosis.

This species is readily distinguishable from all other Enicospilus species by the unique small drop-shaped and isolated proximal sclerite of fore wing fenestra, as in Fig. 15F.