Enicospilus dolosus ( Tosquinet, 1896 )

Rousse, Pascal & Villemant, Claire, 2012, Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species, Zootaxa 3278, pp. 1-57 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.214150
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6181800
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scientific name	Enicospilus dolosus ( Tosquinet, 1896 )
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Enicospilus dolosus ( Tosquinet, 1896) View in CoL

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Amesospilus hammersteini Enderlein, 1921: 21 ; Enicospilus dwibinduae Rao & Nikam, 1969: 12 View in CoL ; Enicospilus laticarinatus Chiu, 1954: 19 View in CoL ; Enicospilus melanospilus Cameron, 1906b: 48 View in CoL ; Enicospilus spilonotus Cameron, 1905d: 44 View in CoL ; Henicospilus apicifumatus Morley, 1915: 139 ; Henicospilus atricornis Morley, 1912b: 46 ; Ophion dolosus Tosquinet, 1896: 389 ; Ophion samoanus Kohl, 1908: 315

Diagnosis. In Reunion, this species may only be confused with E. mauritii , which also has a black inter-ocellar area and no central alar sclerite. The sinuous pattern of vein Rs+2r on the fore wing of E. mauritii is nevertheless characteristic.

Description. Gauld & Mitchell (1978).

Host records. Anomis leona ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ) and Haritalodes derogate ( Lepidoptera : Crambidae ) on cotton ( Gossypium hirsutum ) and kydia (Kydia calicina).

Distribution records. Reunion (new record). Widely distributed throughout Africa to Australia, Oceania, India and South-East Asia.

Material examined. 1Ƥ Etang de St Paul, III.1996, alt. 20m, leg. C. Guillermet.