Symplecis Förster

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

Symplecis Förster, 1869. Type species: Symplectis albicola Förster, 1871.

Symplecis aperta Varga, 2023 (Burundi)

Symplecis matilei Delobel, 1975 (Central African Republic)

Distribution

Burundi, Central African Republic, Kenya.

Also Holarctic, Neotropical & Oriental regions.

Biology

Hosts: Diadocidia ferruginosa (Diadocidiidae), Neoempheria ombrophila (Mycetophilidae).

References

Delobel, A., Matile, S. 1976. Un nouveau Microleptinae (Hym. Ichneumonidae) parasite de Neoempheria ombrophila, n.sp. (Dipt. Mycetophilidae) en République Centrafricaine. Bulletin de l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire, Series A, 37: 385–394.

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.

Varga, O. 2023. One sample—three new species: an example of species richness of the genus Symplecis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) in Burundi. Zootaxa, 5311 (2), 289–296. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5311.2.8

Varga, O. 2025. A New Species of the Genus Symplecis (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Orthocentrinae) from Kenya Zoodiversity 59: 499-504. https://doi.org/10.15407/zoo2025.06.499

Credits

Photographs © Olexsandra Varga (Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology).

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

Next genus:Tariqia Rousse & Villemant, 2012.

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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