Ultraconserved-elements

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

• Travunioidea

  travunioid harvestmen, armoured harvestmen

  Travunioidea is a superfamily of armoured harvestmen (Opiliones: Laniatores) comprising four families and approximately 75-77 described species. It represents an early-diverging lineage within the suborder Laniatores, characterized by a Laurasian distribution spanning eastern Asia, eastern and western North America, and south-central Europe. Recent phylogenomic studies using ultraconserved elements (UCEs) have revised the classification, establishing the families Travuniidae, Cladonychiidae, Paranonychidae, and Cryptomastridae, while rejecting traditional tarsal claw-based taxonomy due to widespread homoplasy.

  harvestmenOpilionesLaniatoresLaurasian-distributionphylogenomicsultraconserved-elementscave-dwellingtemperateshort-range-endemic