Enicospilus odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978

Gadallah, Neveen S., Soliman, Ahmed M., Rousse, Pascal & Al Dhafer, Hathal M., 2017, The genus Enicospilus Stephens, 1835 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Ophioninae) in Saudi Arabia, with twelve new species records and the description of five new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 365, pp. 1-69 : 30-31

Enicospilus odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978

Figs 4C , 7E , 11E , 15E , 19E , 25B , 30E

Enicospilus odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978: 137 , ♀.

Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)

B 16–30; F 14–20; ML 0.2; CT 1.3; OOL 0.04, POL 0.6; FI 0.6–0.66; Fl1–2 1.5–1.6; Fl20 1.6–2.0; AI 0.75; ICI 0.47–0.5; CI 0.28–0.36; SDI 1.4–1.45; NI 2.8.

Relatively large-sized insects, body including antennae and legs reddish brown, vertex and orbits pale yellow to whitish; mandible with upper and lower teeth subequal; clypeus flat to hardly convex in profile, with ventral margin truncate; face 1.2–1.5 × as high as wide; antenna with 56–58 flagellomeres; mesopleuron closely punctate, metapleuron coarsely striate; posterior transverse carina of propodeum well distinct, anterior area finely and shallowly striate, posterior area coarsely and concentrically striate; fore wing with proximal sclerite acutely arrow-shaped, central sclerite weakly sclerotized; hind wing with 7–8 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely spinose.

Material examined

SAUDI ARABIA: 5 ♀♀, 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap (House), 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al.; 1 specimen (without abdomen), Raydah (Asir), light trap (House), 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al.; 2 ♀♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap (House), 17 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( EFC); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Wadi Yabah (Asir), 11 Oct. 2013, light trap, leg. Sonbati et al., ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 21 Feb. 2014 (leg. Al Dhafer et al.) ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Tamniah Dam (Asir), light trap, 24 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Wadi Rida (Asir), light trap, 24 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 5, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 26 Apr. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 3 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 2, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 3, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 6 Jun. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 3 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 21 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 2, 8 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 3, 8 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 11 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 11 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 11 Dec. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 27 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 5, 27 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 30 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 5 Mar. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), Malaise trap 5, 8 May 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 31 Jul. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 5 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 5 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 8, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA); 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 18 Nov. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. ( KSMA).

Description

Male (7 specimens)

COLOUR. Resembles female but with B 28 and F 20 totally reddish brown, with vertex, orbits and posterior margin of head pale yellowish, pronotum anteriorly light red, T3 – 7 of metasoma black laterally.

HEAD. Mandibles moderately twisted, with two subequal teeth; labrum 0.3 × as high as broad; malar space 0.2 × mandibular base; clypeus nearly smooth, flat to hardly convex in profile as in female, with ventral margin truncate; face finely shallowly punctate; gena slightly constricted behind eyes; lateral ocellus not touching eye; occipital carina complete; antenna with 54 flagellomeres, Fl1 – 2 1.25.

MESOSOMA. Pronotum short, with transverse furrow; mesoscutum finely coriaceous, notauli indistinct; mesopleuron and metapleuron densely setose, but appears as if puncto-striate; basal carina of propodeum strong and complete, anterior area of propodeum finely coriaceous, posterior area coarsely and concentrically striate; postpectal carina complete.

FORE WING. Rs+2 r distinctly thickened medially, straight, fenestra less than length of 3r-m from Rs base; wing sclerites as in female (see diagnosis); hind wing with 1A straight basally, with 9 distal hamuli on R1. Fore tibia sparsely spinose.

METASOMA. Long and slender, S2 ending well before spiracle of T2; thyridium ellipsoid, very shallow and hardly visible.

BOLD Identification Number

ADB4115.

Distribution

Yemen ( Gauld & Mitchell 1978; Yu et al. 2012); Saudi Arabia (new record).

Figures

Fig. 4. Lateral habitus. A. Enicospilus nervellator Aubert, 1966. B. E. oculator Seyrig, 1935. C. E. odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. D. E. oweni Gauld & Mitchell, 1976. E. E. pacificus (Holmgren, 1868). F. E. pallidus (Taschenberg, 1875). G. E. pseudoculator Gadallah & Soliman sp. nov. H. E. rundiensis Bischoff, 1915. Scale bars = 2.5 mm.

Fig. 7. Anterior view of head. A. Enicospilus grandiflavus Townes & Townes, 1973. B. E. mirabilis Soliman & Gadallah sp. nov. C. E. nervellator Aubert, 1966. D. E. oculator Seyrig, 1935. E. E. odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. F. E. oweni Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.

Fig. 11. Lateral view of head. A. Enicospilus grandiflavus Townes & Townes, 1973. B. E. mirabilis Soliman & Gadallah sp. nov. C. E. nervellator Aubert, 1966. D. E. oculator Seyrig, 1935. E. E. odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. F. E. oweni Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.

Fig. 15. Lateral aspect of meososoma. A. Enicospilus grandiflavus Townes & Townes, 1973. B. E. mirabilis Soliman & Gadallah sp. nov. C. E. nervellator Aubert, 1966. D. E. oculator Seyrig, 1935. E. E. odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. F. E. oweni Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.

Fig. 19. Propodeum. A. Enicospilus grandiflavus Townes & Townes, 1973. B. E. mirabilis Soliman & Gadallah sp. nov. C. E. nervellator Aubert, 1966. D. E. oculator Seyrig, 1935. E. E. odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. F. E. oweni Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.

Fig. 25. Fore wing. A. Enicospilus oculator Seyrig, 1935. B. E. odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. C. E. oweni Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. Scale bars = 2.5 mm.

Fig. 30. Hind tarsal claw. A. Enicospilus grandiflavus Townes & Townes, 1973. B. E. mirabilis Soliman & Gadallah sp. nov. C. E. nervellator Aubert, 1966. D. E. oculator Seyrig, 1935. E. E. odax Gauld & Mitchell, 1978. F. E. oweni Gauld & Mitchell, 1978.