Enicospilus bakerielli Gauld & Mitchell, 1981

Pham, Nhi Thi, Pham, Phu Van, Matsumoto, Rikio, Shimizu, So & Broad, Gavin R., 2023, A review of the genus Enicospilus Stephens (Ichneumonidae: Ophioninae) from Vietnam, with descriptions of ten new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 873 (1), pp. 1-151 : 28

Enicospilus bakerielli Gauld & Mitchell, 1981

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Enicospilus bakerielli Gauld & Mitchell, 1981: 203 ; holotype ♀ from Philippines ( NMNH).

Diagnosis

Interocellar area yellowish brown (or black in one specimen from Philippines); clypeus weakly convex, ventral margin acute; mandible twisted 30°–45°, outer surface with a weak diagonal setose groove or with a tuft of long setae; fore wing darkened at marginal cell proximally and between proximal and distal sclerites in Vietnamese specimens, only a little darkened around vein 2r&RS in examined material from Philippines, proximal sclerite strongly pigmented, more or less triangular (Vietnamese specimens) with anterior corner acute to D-shaped, SDI = 0.66–0.75; hind tarsal claws with distal pecten projecting beyond apical tooth.

Material examined

PHILIPPINES • 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 1 unsexed [metasoma missing]; Dapitan ; P.I. Baker leg.; NHMUK • 1 ♀; Los Banos ; P.I. Baker leg.; NHMUK. Specimens in NHMUK were identified as E. bakerielli by I.D. Gauld in 1980 and labelled as paratypes, but were not listed under the material examined section in Gauld & Mitchell (1981).

VIETNAM • 1 ♀; Thai Nguyen Province, Dinh Hoa, Phu Dinh ; 100 m a.s.l., 2 Apr. 2004; Hoang V.T. leg.; hand net; IEBR • 1 ♀; Dong Nai Province, Vinh Cuu, Phu Ly ; 1 Aug. 2008; Ta H.T. and Hoang V.T. leg.; light trap; IEBR • 1 ♀; Cao Bang Province, Phia Oac - Phia Den NP ; 22°35.305′ N, 105°52.552′ E; 1216 m a.s.l.; 23 May 2020; Hoang V.T. and Pham V.P. leg.; light trap; IEBR • 1 ♀; same locality as for preceding; 8 May 2021; Nguyen D.H. leg.; light trap; IEBR .

Remarks

There is some minor variation between examined material from Philippines, and the Vietnamese specimens, and these might not be conspecific.

Distribution

Previously known from Papua New Guinea and Philippines ( Yu et al. 2016). These are the first records of this species from Vietnam.

Figures

Fig. 11. Enicospilus bakerielli Gauld & Mitchell, 1981, ♀ (IEBR). a. Habitus. b. Head, frontal view. c. Head, dorsal view. d. Head, lateral view. e. Mesosoma, lateral view. f. Central part of fore wing. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.