Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species
Author
Rousse, Pascal
Author
Villemant, Claire
text
Zootaxa
2012
3278
1
57
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.214150
eee2c5c2-96c0-4459-bd7f-4e48a6be87c4
1175-5326
214150
Enicospilus sesamiae
Delobel, 1974
(
Fig. 15
k)
Diagnosis
.
E. sesamiae
is firstly characterized in the subregion by its small sclerite. It may thus be confused with
E. ruscus
but this latter has a piliferous furrow on mandible.
Description
.
Gauld & Mitchell (1978)
.
Host records.
Procerata venosata
(
Lepidoptera
:
Brachodidae
) (
Gauld & Mitchell 1978
),
Busseola fusca
,
Sesamia calamistis
and
S. vuteria
(
Lepidoptera
:
Noctuidae
) (
Zwart 1998
).
Distribution records
.
Reunion
(
Zwart 1998
).
Ghana
,
Madagascar
,
Nigeria
,
Sierra Leone
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
,
Mauritius
.
Material examined
. 13 St Pierre / Bassin Martin, alt.
290m
,
VI.2011
, leg. Cirad; 3Ƥ St Paul / Tan Rouge, alt.
800m
,
II.2011
, leg. Cirad; 2Ƥ Ste Rose,
VI.1996
, leg. Cirad.