Enicospilus mauritii ( Saussure, 1892 )

Rousse, Pascal & Villemant, Claire, 2012, Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species, Zootaxa 3278, pp. 1-57 : 38

Enicospilus mauritii ( Saussure, 1892)

( Fig. 15 h)

Amesospilus rectecarinatus Enderlein, 1921: 20 ; Henicospilus leionotus longicornis Morley, 1912a: 173 ; Ophion mauritii Sau-

ssure, 1892: pl. 14

Diagnosis. Species with inter-ocellar area black, Rs+2r distinctly sinuate and no central sclerite on fore wing ( Fig. 13 h).

Description. Gauld & Mitchell (1978).

Host records. Chilo sacchariphagus ( Lepidoptera : Pyralidae ), Tetramoera schistaceana ( Lepidoptera : Tortricidae ), Sesamia nonagrioides , S. calamistis and Mythimna loreyi ( Lepidoptera : Noctuidae ).

Comments. One of the examined specimens (MHNSD 2809) is much darker than the normal form. The meso- and metasoma show large testaceous to black markings, with the propodeum and tergites I-II uniformly black. It otherwise totally agrees with the description of Gauld & Mitchell (1978). We consider it to be a melanic form of E. mauritii , perhaps collected at high altitude.

Distribution records. Reunion ( Bordage 1914). Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles and Zambia ( Gauld & Mitchell 1978).

Material examined. 1Ƥ ( MHNSD 2809), locality and date of collection unknown; 13 Petite Ile, I.2006, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ St Denis / Colorado, I.2009, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ St Paul / Le Guillaume, I.2006, leg. IDR (light trap); 1Ƥ Trois Bassins / route forestière des tamarins, I.2005, leg. IDR (light trap).

Figures

FIGURE 13. Cryptinae and Ichneumoninae (females, excepted 13 d), habitus. a: Paraphylax transversatorius. b: Diatora albiscapus. c: Crytea albitrochanterata. d: Ichneumon unicinctus (male).

FIGURE 15. Fore wing details of Enicospilus spp. a: E. angustatus. b: E. betanimenus. c: E. dolosus. d: E. dubius. e: E. grandiflavus. f: E. helvolus. g: E. hova. h: E. mauritii. i: E. rufus. j: E. ruscus. k: E. sesamiae. l: E. transvaalensis.