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Stenomacrus Förster

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Orthocentrinae)

Stenomacrus Förster, 1869. Type species:

Stenomacrus clypeatus Varga, 2024 (Burundi)
Stenomacrus communis Varga, 2024 (Kenya)
Stenomacrus glabratus Varga, 2024 (Kenya)
Stenomacrus luteus Varga, 2024 (Kenya)

Stenomacrus payet Rousse & Villemant, 2012 (Reunion)

Stenomacrus pronotalis Varga, 2024 (Kenya)

Stenomacrus scutellaris Varga, 2024 (Kenya)

Stenomacrus valvator Varga, 2024 (Kenya)
Stenomacrus vuriaensis Varga, 2024 (Kenya)
Stenomacrus species (South Africa)

Distribution

Afrotropical (Burundi, Kenya, Reunion, South Africa); Australasian; Nearctic; Neotropical; Oceanic; Palaearctic regions.

Biology

Unknown, but likely to be parasitoids of Sciaridae (Diptera).

References

Förster, A. 1869. Synopsis der Familien und Gattungen der Ichneumonen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 25: 135-221.

Förster, A. 1871. Uebersicht der Gattungen und Arten der Familie der Plectiscoiden. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 28: 71-123.

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

Seyrig, A. 1934. Les Ichneumonides de Madagascar. II Ichneumonidae Tryphoninae et Supplement aux I. Pimplinae. Mémoires de l'Académie Malgache 19: 1-111.

Yu D.S., van Achterberg, K., Horstmann, K. 2011. World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Available from Vancouver, Canada: Taxapad. www.taxapad.com

Varga, O. 2024. Review of the genus Stenomacrus Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from Kenya and Burundi: a first step to understanding the diversity of the genus in the Afrotropics. European Journal of Taxonomy, 958, 177–202. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.958.2669

Credits

Photographs by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN (specimens database http://coldb.mnhn.fr), or photographs © Olexsandra Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology).
 

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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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