Enicospilus senescens (Tosquinet, 1896)

Figs 5A, 8E, 12E, 16E, 20E, 27B, 31E

Ophion (Allocamptus) senescens Tosquinet, 1896: 375, ♂.

O. (Allocamptus) infuscatus Tosquinet, 1896: 373, ♂.

Allocamptus rapax Seyrig, 1935: 50, ♀.

Diagnosis (after Gauld & Mitchell 1978)

B 18–20; F 11–17; ML 0.1–0.2; CT 1.4–1.8; OOL 0.1, POL 0.45; FI 0.6–0.7; Fl1–2 1.5–1.6; Fl20 2.5–2.7; AI 1.1–1.65; ICI 0.7–1.0; CI 0.8–1.0; SDI 1.6–1.8; NI 2.5.

Body entirely reddish to orange, orbits pale yellowish; mandible with upper tooth about 1.25 × as long as lower tooth; clypeus slightly convex in profile, ventral margin slightly in-turned; face 1.2 × as long as wide; antenna with 51–62 flagellomeres; meso- and metapleura puncto-striate; basal transverse carina of propodeum distinct, anterior area of propodeum nearly smooth to superficially shagreened, posterior area coarsely reticulate; disco-submarginal cell of fore wing without alar sclerites, Rs+2 r strongly sinuate proximally; hind wing with 5–8 distal hamuli on R1; fore tibia sparsely setose.

Material examined

SAUDI ARABIA: 2 ♀♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 6, 26 Aug. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (EFC); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 21 Feb. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 3, 20 Oct. 2014, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 9, 30 Jan. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Raydah (Asir), light trap 4, 31 Jul. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♀, Shada Al Ala (Al Baha), light trap 1, 2 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA); 1 ♂, Raydah (Asir), light trap 7, 5 Sep. 2015, leg. Al Dhafer et al. (KSMA).

Distribution

Togo, Ghana, Ethiopia, Angola, Central African Republic, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda (Gauld & Mitchell 1978), Democratic Republic of Congo, Benin, South Africa, Zimbabwe (Yu et al. 2012), Gabon (Gauld & Mitchell 1978; van Noort 2004); Saudi Arabia (new records).