Symplecis antennalis Varga

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

Symplecis antennalis Varga, 2025. Holotype in Nairobi (NMK). Type locality: Kenya, Western Prov., Kakamega Forest, nr. KFS HDQTRs, 1620 m, 0.23742 N, 34.86607 E, Malaise trap in indigenous forest, 12–26.06.2017 (R. Copeland).

Distribution

Kenya.

Biology

Host: unknown.

Reference

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.

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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