Aculeate-hymenoptera

Guides

• Stenarella

  Stenarella is a genus of ichneumonid wasps in the subfamily Cryptinae, subtribe Osprynchotina. The genus is monophyletic and distributed across the Old World, with three major biogeographic clades corresponding to the Afrotropical, Palearctic, and Oriental–Australasian regions. Eighteen species are currently recognized, twelve described as new in a 2025 phylogenomic revision. Species are ectoparasitoids of aculeate Hymenoptera that construct nests using mud or earth.

  HymenopteraIchneumonidaeCryptinaeparasitoidectoparasitoidmud-nestingaculeate-HymenopteraOld-World-distributionadventive-speciesbiogeographyphylogenomicsultraconserved-elements