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Stenarella insidiator (Smith, 1859)

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Cryptinae; Tribe: Cryptini; Genus: Stenarella)

Mesostenus insidiator Smith 1859: 60. Holotype ♀ (OXUM).
Orientostenaraeus chinensis Uchida, 1930: 321. Holotype ♀ (Hokkaido
University). Synonymized by Townes et al. (1961).
Stenarella insidiator: Townes et al. (1961).

Distribution

Oriental: Brunei, Cambodia, China (Liaoninh, Sichuan, Yunnan), India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.

Biology

Hosts: Sceliphron madraspatanum Klug, 1801 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae); Orancistrocerus aterrimus (de Saussure, 1852) (Hymenoptera; Vespidae; Eumeninae).

References

Santos BF, Bordera S. 2025. Phylogenomics and taxonomic revision of Stenarella Szépligeti (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 83: 463–511. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.83.e151385

Credits

Photographs © Santos and Bordero.

Map illustration © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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