Numbers
Nearctica lists 12 species.
Identification
Key by Gavin Broad (2006) - see Internet Ref. below - includes an illustration of Enicospilus wing.
Diagnostic details visible in wing photo: the discosubmarginal cell (horsehead-shaped cell below the leading wing edge) extends beyond vein 2m-cu; transparent oval (inside discosubmarginal cell) in the the otherwise papillate wing [at least some Enicospilus spp. have two spots in this oval]; spurious vein in cell 3Cu,
parallel to the wing margin.
Print References
Gauld, I.D. (1988). The species of the Enicospilus americanus complex (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in eastern North America. Systematic Entomology 13:31-53.
Internet References
Broad, Gavin. Identification key to the subfamilies of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). (2006) Biol. Records Center, CEH Monks Wood, UK. (download as
PDF.
