Genus Enicospilus

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Print References · Internet References

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon (parasitic Apocrita)

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconids and Ichneumons)

Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumon Wasps)

Subfamily Ophioninae

Genus Enicospilus

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.

Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 30 October, 2006 - 1:44am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 5 January, 2009 - 11:11pm

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