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Eusterinx (Ischyracis) kibale van Noort & Humala

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

Eusterinx kibale van Noort & Humala, 2025. Holotype in SAMC, Cape Town. Type locality: UGANDA • ♀; Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biological Field Station; 1495m; 0°33.996ʹN 30°21.262ʹE; 5–12.viii.2005; S. van Noort; UG05-M15; Malaise trap; secondary mid-altitude rainforest; Eusterinx (Ischyracis) det. G. Broad 2016; IMAGED WaspWeb LAS 4.9 SAMC 2025; SAM-HYM-P061158 (SAMC). `

Distribution

Uganda.

Biology

Host unknown. A few species of Eusterinx have been reported to be koinobiont endoparasitoids of keroplatid gnats from the genera Orfelia Costa and Cerotelion Rondani (Diptera, Keroplatidae) (Dasch 1992).

References

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Dasch CE 1992. The Ichneumon-flies of America North of Mexico: Part 12. Subfamilies Microleptinae, Helictinae, Cylloceriinae and Oxytorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 52: 1–470.

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

Gauld ID (1984) An introduction to the Ichneumonidae of Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 895: 1–413.

Humala AE (2007) Orthocentrinae. In: Lelej AS (Ed.) Key to the insects of Russia Far East. Vol. IV. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Pt 5. Dalnauka, Vladivostok, 680–717. [in Russian]

Humala AE (2016) A new species of the genus Eusterinx Forster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from Malaysia. Eurasian Entomological Journal 15: 171–174.

Humala AE (2024) First record of the genus Eusterinx Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from the Afrotropical region, with description of a new species from South Africa. Zootaxa 5537(2): 281–287. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5537.2.8

Humala AE (2025) A review of Mexican species of the genus Eusterinx (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae). Zoosystematica Rossica 34(1): 149–159. https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2025.34.1.149

Humala AE, Choi JK, Lee JW (2018) Review of the genus Eusterinx Förster (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Orthocentrinae) from South Korea with descriptions of five new species. Entomological Science 21(1): 97–111. https://doi.org/10.1111/ens.122872017

Humala AE, Ruíz-Cancino E (2017) Two new species of the genus Eusterinx (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from Mexico. Zoosystematica Rossica 26(1): 161–166.

Humala, AE, van Noort S. 2025. New records of the genus Eusterinx Förster (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Orthocentrinae) from the Afrotropical Region, with description of four new species from Central African Republic, South Africa and Uganda. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 98: 817-839. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.98.157523

Khalaim AI, Kasparyan DR, Humala AE (2019) Family Ichneumonidae. In: Belokobylskij SA, Samartsev KG, Il’inskaya AS (Eds) Annotated catalogue of the Hymenoptera of Russia. Vol. II. Apocrita: Parasitica. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. Supplement 8. Zoological Institute RAS, St Petersburg, 340–443.

Townes HK (1971) The genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 4. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 17: 1–372.

van Rossem G (1987) A revision of western Palaearctic Oxytorine genera. Part VI. (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Tijdschrift voor entomologie 130: 49–108. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/66390.

Wahl D (1990) A review of the mature of Diplazontinae, with notes on larvae of Acaenitinae and Orthocentrinae and proposal of two new subfamilies (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Journal of Natural History 24: 27–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939000770041

Yu DSK, van Achterberg C, Horstmann K (2016) Taxapad 2016, World Ichneumonoidea 2015. Taxonomy, biology, morphology and distribution. Taxapad interactive catalogue database. Nepean, Ontario, Canada. [On flash-drive]

Credits

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

 

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