Enicospilus cressoni, Hooker, 1912

FERNÁNDEZ-TRIANA, JOSÉ L., 2005, The taxonomy and biogeography of Cuban Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Zootaxa 1007 (1), pp. 1-60 : 39

19. E. cressoni Hooker ( Fig. 10 e )

Enicospilus cressoni Hooker, 1912: 62 . Lectotype ♀, Mexico (PANS), designated by Townes & Townes, 1966: 176.

This species is known to occur in Central America from Mexico south to Costa Rica, in Florida (USA) and on the larger Caribbean islands ( Gauld, 1988). Six specimens (5 ♀ and 1 ♂) were studied by Gauld , who associated with some hesitation the male to the species because he found several differences regarding females (i.e. blackish antennae, lacking pleural sculpture and without a carina joining the spiracle to the lateral longitudinal carina). I have studied 3 Cuban specimens (2 ♀ and 1 ♂) and have found blackish antennae in one female (it also had the body colour darker), but not in the male. Besides, neither male nor females Cuban specimens lack the carina joining the spiracle to the lateral longitudinal carina, so it could be a variation of the species rather than sex. In spite of very few specimens have ever been collected, E. cressoni is recorded across the all island, from sea level up to about 500 m. a.s.l. It is the only Cuban species with the combination of central sclerite absent and infuscate to black interocellar area .

MATERIAL EXAMINED: WC. PR. Lomas de Soroa, Candelaria , III­1963, Alayo­ García (1 ♀, IES) ; III­1965, no furter data (1 ♂, IES) . CC. CA: Baraguá , XI­1927, L. Scaramuzza (1 ♀, MCZ. Not seen by me, but reported by Gauld, 1988: 199) . EC. SC: Puerto Boniato , Santiago de Cuba, XI­1945, P. Alayo (1 ♀, MNHNCu) .

Figures

FIGURE 10: Fore wings of Cuban Enicospilus. a: glabratus (Say), b: carlota Gauld, c: trilineatus (Brullé), d: teremari sp. nov. e: cressoni Hooker, f: neotropicus Hooker, g: guatemalensis (Cameron), h: cubensis (Norton), i: iangauldi sp. nov., j: gallegosi Gauld, k: fernaldi Hooker, l: flavus (Fabricius), m: woldai Gauld, n: sondrae Gauld, o: liesneri Gauld. p: grilloi sp. nov., q: wahli sp. nov., r: cheosi sp. nov., s: purgatus (Say), t: flavoscutellatus (Brullé), u: howdenorum Gauld, v: hansonorum sp. nov.