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Stenarella tripartita (Brullé)

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

Mesostenus tripartitus Brullé, 1846. Holotype: in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm. Type locality: 

Distribution

Stenarella tripartita_map

Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, Togo.

Biology

 Hosts: Eumenes maxillosus (Eumeninae), Rhynchium anceps, Rhynchium tropicalis, Sceliphron spirifex (Sphecinae).

References

Brullé, M.A. 1846. Tome Quatrième. Des Hyménoptères. Les Ichneumonides. In: Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau A. "Histoire Naturelles des Insectes." Paris. 680 pp. pp. 56-324.

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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