Enicospilus kokujevi Viktorov, 1957

Johansson, Niklas, Ameri, Ali, Riedel, Matthias, Talebi, Ali Asghar & Ebrahimi, Ebrahim, 2021, Contribution to the Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Iran with the description of 16 new species and an illustrated key to the Eremotylus of the Western Palaearctic, Zootaxa 5023 (2), pp. 151-206 : 162

Enicospilus kokujevi Viktorov, 1957 ?

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Enicospilus kokujevi Viktorov, 1957: 200 , Figs 39–41. Lectotype ♂ from Turkmenistan in MSU, not examined.

Material examined: IRAN: 2♀♀, Khuzestan Province, Hakim Farabi Industries., 48˚33"N, 31˚00"E, 2019, Reared from Mythimna unipuncta (Haworth, 1809) in sugarcane, A. Cheraghi leg. ( NJ) .

DNA Barcode: The DNA barcode sequence of one specimen of Enicospilus kokujevi is available at the BOLD systems database: sample id. NJP681, sequence id. LNU2517-21.

Remarks: The single barcode clusters in BOLD with a series of Japanese Enicospilus determined as E. laqueatus (Enderlein, 1921) . However, the here treated species differs morphologically from E. laqueatus in several characters, such as the shape of the central sclerite ( Fig. 6D ) and the length of the malar space ( Fig. 6C ). Either the molecular sampling is insufficient to characterize and differentiate the species involved or E. laqueatus is a more highly variable species than previously presumed, possibly indicating synonymy between E. kokujevi and E. laqueatus . It shall be noted that we have not been able to get access to the type of E. kokujevi due to the Covid 19 restrictions of the MSU and the here presented interpretation is based on the orginal description ( Viktorov 1957) alone.

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FIGURE 6. Presumed female of Enicospilus kokujevi Viktorov, 1957 (NJ). A) Habitus, lateral view; B) head, lateral view; C) head, anterior view; D) alar sclerites. Photos: Niklas Johansson.