Info from" Gauld 1988. The species of the Enicospilus americanus complex (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in eastern North America ³

Large, common species in Southern California.

Can be separated from other species of the E. americanus complex by:

1. Forewing with discosubmarginal cell bearing a cluster of closely interspaced hairs in anterodistal corner
2. lower part of occipital (genal) carina joining hypostomal carina

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