Enicospilus abdominalis ( Szepligeti , 1906)
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Enicospilus abdominalis ( Szepligeti , 1906) |
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Enicospilus abdominalis ( Szepligeti, 1906) Figure 9 View Figure 9
Henicospilus abdominalis Szépligeti, 1906: 138; HT ♀ from Sri Lanka, TM, not examined.
Ophion semiopacus Matsumura, 1912: 114; HT ♀ from Taiwan, SEHU, examined; synonymised by Gauld and Mitchell (1981: 429).
Specimens examined.
Total of 19 specimens (all ♀♀): Japan (1♀), Nepal (1♀), Sri Lanka (2♀♀), Taiwan (15♀♀).
Type series: HT ♀ of Ophion semiopacus Matsumura, 1912, Gyochi, TAIWAN, Matsumura leg. (SEHU).
Distribution.
Australasian, Eastern Palaearctic, and Oriental regions ( Yu et al. 2016); this is a predominantly Oriental species.
Newly recorded from Nepal.
JAPAN: [ Ryûkyûs] Okinawa ( Shimizu and Maeto 2016; present study). This species is abundant in Taiwan and in other mountainous areas of the Oriental region, but only one Japanese specimen has been collected from Okinawa-hontô of the Ryûkyûs. This single Japanese individual could have been a wanderer from Taiwan or other southern areas.
Bionomics.
Unknown.
Differential diagnosis.
The characteristic striking colour pattern of this species (i.e., T1-4 each anteriorly yellow-brown and posteriorly dark brown, as in Fig. 9A View Figure 9 ) is the most useful diagnostic character among the Japanese species of Enicospilus . Some non-Japanese species, such as E. zebrus Gauld & Mitchell, 1981, have a similar colour pattern, but E. abdominalis is distinguishable by many characters, such as shape and size of fore wing fenestra and sclerites.
This species has been confused with E. nigropectus by many authors (cf. Gauld and Mitchell (1981)) but is easily distinguished from E. nigropectus by presence of central sclerite of fore wing fenestra, as in Fig. 9F View Figure 9 (central sclerite absent in E. nigropectus , as in Fig. 33F View Figure 33 ), larger value of SDI (1.3-1.4 in this species, as in Fig. 9F View Figure 9 , but 0.9-1.1 in E. nigropectus , as in Fig. 33F View Figure 33 ), yellowish interocellar area (Fig. 9B, C View Figure 9 ) (interocellar area usually blackish in E. nigropectus , as in Fig. 33B, C View Figure 33 ), etc. Enicospilus abdominalis is also morphologically similar to E. signativentris but can be distinguished by striking colour pattern and absence of distinct posterior transverse carina of propodeum.
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