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918AEE1875695491AC49BB8BBFE47602.text	918AEE1875695491AC49BB8BBFE47602.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eusterinx (Ischyracis) dzanga Humala & van Noort 2025	<div><p>Eusterinx (Ischyracis) dzanga Humala &amp; van Noort sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 1, 2</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype: Central African Republic • ♀; Prefecture Sangha-Mbaéré, Parc National de Dzanga-Ndoki, 38.6 km 173°S <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=16.153334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=2.3600001" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 16.153334/lat 2.3600001)">Lidjombo</a>; 2°21.60'N, 16°09.20'E; 350 m, 26–27 May 2001; S. van Noort leg.; Lowland rainforest, Malaise trap, CAR 01 - M 225, Eusterinx (Ischyracis) det. G. Broad 2015; IMAGED WaspWeb LAS 4.9 SAMC 2024; SAM-HYM-P 046838 (SAMC) .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female (holotype). Body length 5.2 mm, fore wing length 3.3 mm (Fig. 1 A).</p><p>Head. Head 1.3 × as wide as high in anterior view; eyes glabrous, large and strongly convex; frons shagreen with sparse setae; inner orbits strongly convergent downwards; face nearly polished with sparse setae; maximum face width at level of antennal sockets, 1.1 × as high, 0.38 × as wide as head (Fig. 1 C). Antenna with 24 elongate flagellomeres, all flagellomeres at least twice as long as wide; first flagellomere ca. 7.0 × as long as wide; second flagellomere 0.8 × as long as first flagellomere. Malar space coriaceous, about 1.25 × as long as basal width of mandible, subocular sulcus distinct; anterior tentorial pits open; clypeus convex, narrow, 0.5 × as high as wide. Mandibles slender, strongly twisted inwards and tapered apically, lower tooth small and invisible in front view. Maxillary palps very long, reaching hind coxa. Occiput nearly polished; occipital carina present dorsally, absent laterally; temple 0.2 × as long as eye length. Ocelli of moderate size; ratio of OOL: maximum diameter of lateral ocellus: POL as 19: 22: 18 (Fig. 1 B). Head distinctly narrowed behind eyes, temple short, 0.24 × as long as eye width.</p><p>Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.5 × as long as maximum height; pronotum polished with distinct epomia; mesoscutum granulate, covered with dense setae; notauli well developed, meeting in the center of mesoscutum and continuing as a median longitudinal carina not reaching scuto-scutellar groove (Fig. 2 B). Notauli anteriorly with small protrusion to the outside of the base (Figs 1 E, 2 B); epicnemial carina complete ventrally, almost reaching upper part of the mesopleuron; mesopleuron polished and mostly glabrous with short sternaulus anteriorly; metapleuron coriaceous. Propodeum nearly smooth with all carinae developed and with a pair of strong apophyses formed at junction of lateral longitudinal carina and posterior transverse carina (Fig. 2 A, C). Apophyses somewhat flattened dorsoventrally and rounded apically, nearly as long as hind femur width. Anterior transverse carina forming a crest; area basalis not closed anteriorly, area superomedia elongate, narrowing posteriorly, 1.9 × as long as maximum wide (Fig. 2 C). Spiracles round and small (Fig. 1 E).</p><p>Legs. Legs very slender, hind coxa granulate, hind femur 6.3 × as long as wide, tibial spurs short and slender, hind basitarsus 0.4 × as long as hind tibia; ratio of hind tarsomeres as 35: 21: 14: 8: 12 (Fig. 1 A); claws simple.</p><p>Wings. Wings comparatively narrow (Fig. 2 D). Fore wing without areolet (vein 3 rs-m absent), radius (vein 2 r &amp; Rs) originates from posterior 0.6 of stigma, nervulus (vein 1 cu-a) slightly antefurcal, postnervulus intercepted in lower third; in hind wing nervellus reclivous, straight, not intercepted, discoidella lacking.</p><p>Metasoma. T 1 slender, 4.8 × as long as maximum width posteriorly, petiole smooth dorsally in anterior third, posterior half and postpetiole with longitudinal striae; dorsal carina lacking; small spiracle at 0.55 of tergite, sternite fused with tergite, reaching 0.8 of tergite; T 2 coriaceous, 2.15 × as long as maximum width posteriorly with irregular longitudinal striae and oval thyridium offset from base by its length (Fig. 2 E); T 3 almost parallel-sided, with irregular longitudinal striae anteriorly; other tergites weakly granulate, with sparse setiferous punctures. Ovipositor nearly straight, tapered at apical quarter; ovipositor sheath about 0.27 × as long as hind tibia.</p><p>Colour. Dark-brown; palps pale; apical part of clypeus, mandible, basal antennomeres, tegula and wing bases yellowish-brown; flagellum mostly brown, with flagellomeres 7–14 pale; metasoma predominantly brown, T 1 and T 2 dark-brown, posterior margins of T 1 – T 3 and T 4 entirely yellowish (Fig. 1 A). Fore and mid legs, hind trochanter and trochantellus yellowish, hind coxa in proximal half dark-brown, yellowish-brown distally, hind femur yellowish-brown, infuscate in proximal half, distal third of hind tibia and hind tarsus infuscate; ovipositor sheaths yellowish, darkened in apical half. Wings hyaline, veins including pterostigma brown.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Comparison.</p><p>Compared to other Ischyracis species that lack a closed areolet, the new species is characterized by strong apophyses (as long as hind femur width), slender hind legs, short ovipositor, and distinct light band on flagellum.</p><p>From allied E. africana and E. kibale, E. dzanga sp. nov. differs in larger size – body length 5.2 mm, fore wing length 3.3 mm (vs. 3.6 mm and 2.7 mm respectively in E. africana, and 3.5 mm and 2.7 mm respectively in E. kibale), wider area superomedia 1.9 × as long as maximum width (vs. 2.4 × in E. africana), slenderer T 2 – 2.15 × as long as wide posteriorly (vs. 1.35 × in E. africana), and hind femur 6.3 × as long as wide (vs. 5.3 × in E. africana). Propodeal apophyses are as long as E. kibale, short in E. africana, E. gamka and E. kirkwoodi .</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Currently only known from Central African Republic.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The species is named after the Dzanga-Ndoki National Park. Noun in apposition.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/918AEE1875695491AC49BB8BBFE47602	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Humala, Andrei E.;van Noort, Simon	Humala, Andrei E., van Noort, Simon (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, DOI: 10.3897/jhr.98.157523
80C29ADCA21158159C351EDE06A0FAD2.text	80C29ADCA21158159C351EDE06A0FAD2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eusterinx (Ischyracis) Forster 1869	<div><p>Subgenus Ischyracis Förster, 1869</p><p>Acanthostroblia Roman, 1925 .</p><p>Cymodusoides Viereck, 1925 .</p><p>Stroblia Schmiedeknecht, 1911 .</p><p>Dallatorrea Ashmead, 1902 .</p><p>Type species.</p><p>Eusterinx (Ischyracis) bispinosa (Strobl, 1901)</p><p>Diagnosis.</p><p>The subgenus Ischyracis is recognizable by the following characters: propodeum with well-developed apophyses formed at the junction of lateral longitudinal carina and posterior transverse carina; eye large or very large, strongly convex; female inner orbits distinctly convergent to clypeus (to a lesser extent in males); male with concave tyloid on 6 th flagellomere. Fore wing with or without petiolate areolet.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/80C29ADCA21158159C351EDE06A0FAD2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Humala, Andrei E.;van Noort, Simon	Humala, Andrei E., van Noort, Simon (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, DOI: 10.3897/jhr.98.157523
07769C80CEF2542C8A7B12C7DE78BB0F.text	07769C80CEF2542C8A7B12C7DE78BB0F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eusterinx (Ischyracis) gamka van Noort & Humala 2025	<div><p>Eusterinx (Ischyracis) gamka van Noort &amp; Humala sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 3, 4</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype: South Africa • ♀; Western Cape, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=21.89175&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-33.665684" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 21.89175/lat -33.665684)">Gamkaberg Nature Reserve</a>; 33°39.941'S, 21°53.505'E; 315 m; 4 Oct 2010 – 25 Jan 2011; S. van Noort; Yellow pan trap; Gamka Thicket; GB 09 -SUC1-Y 71; Eusterinx (Ischyracis) det. G. Broad 2015; IMAGED WaspWeb LAS 4.9, SAMC 2025; SAM-HYM-P 059233 (SAMC) .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female (holotype). Body length 3.9 mm (Fig. 3 A), fore wing length 2.5 mm (Fig. 4 D).</p><p>Head. Head 1.37 × as wide as high in anterior view; eyes glabrous, large; inner orbits somewhat convergent downwards; face nearly polished with sparse setae; maximum face width at level of antennal sockets 1.4 × as high, 0.4 × as wide as head (Fig. 3 E). Antenna with 24 flagellomeres, all flagellomeres longer than wide, except for terminal 3 flagellomeres which are c. as long as wide; first flagellomere 6 × as long as wide; second flagellomere 0.73 × as long as first flagellomere. Malar space about 1.2 × as long as basal width of mandible, subocular sulcus distinct in proximal half; anterior tentorial pits open; clypeus convex, small, 0.75 × as high as wide, apical margin strongly convex. Mandibles slender, strongly twisted inwards and tapered apically, lower tooth strongly reduced and invisible in front view. Maxillary palps very long, almost reaching middle coxa (Fig. 4 A). Occiput polished; occipital carina present dorsally, absent laterally. Ocelli of moderate size; ratio of OOL: maximum diameter of lateral ocellus: POL as 22: 22: 25 (Fig. 3 C). Head distinctly narrowed behind eyes, temple short, 0.33 × as long as eye width (Fig. 3 C).</p><p>Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.5 × as long as maximum height; pronotum polished with strong epomia; mesoscutum finely punctured, covered with dense setae; notauli well developed as crenulated furrows, meeting in the center of mesoscutum (Fig. 3 D) and continuing as a fine median longitudinal carina not reaching scutellum. Epicnemial carina complete ventrally, reaching half the height of the mesopleuron; mesopleuron polished and mostly glabrous with short sternaulus; metapleuron granulate. Propodeum nearly smooth with all carinae developed except for anterior portions of dorsal longitudinal carinae, with a pair of strong, short apophyses flattened dorsoventrally formed by posterior transverse carina and lateral carinae (Fig. 4 A, C); area basalis not developed; area superomedia 1.6 × as long as maximum width and slightly narrowing posteriorly (Fig. 4 C). Spiracles small and rounded.</p><p>Legs. Legs slender, hind coxa granulate, hind femur 4.0 × as long as wide, tibial spurs short, hind basitarsus 0.4 × as long as hind tibia; ratio of hind tarsomeres as 25: 15: 12: 8: 10; claws simple (Fig. 4 F).</p><p>Wings. Fore wing without areolet (vein 3 rs-m absent), radius (vein 2 r &amp; Rs) originates from middle of stigma, nervulus (vein 1 cu-a) interstitial (Fig. 4 D); postnervulus intercepted nearly in middle; in hind wing nervellus strongly reclivous, not intercepted, discoidella lacking.</p><p>Metasoma. T 1 slender, 4.8 × as long as maximum width posteriorly, with longitudinal striae; dorsal carina lacking; small spiracle at 0.4 of tergite (Fig. 4 E); sternite fused with tergite, reaching 0.7 of tergite; T 2 coriaceous, 1.6 × as long as maximum width posteriorly, with irregular longitudinal striae in anterior 0.6, and weak small thyridium in dorsolateral corner (Fig. 4 E); T 3 weakly coriaceous to granulate, T 4 granulate, T 5 &amp; T 6 granulate to subpolished. Ovipositor nearly straight, tapered at apical third; ovipositor sheath 0.58 × as long as hind tibia (Fig. 4 F).</p><p>Colour. Head and mesosoma dark-brown to black; palps pale, basal antennomeres, tegula and wing bases yellowish; mandible, propleuron, lower pronotum reddish-brown; metasoma mostly dark brown, posterior margins of T 2 – T 3 light brown (Fig. 3 A). Fore and mid legs and hind trochanters yellowish, hind leg predominantly dark brown, excluding yellowish-brown trochanters (Fig. 3 A); ovipositor sheaths yellowish, dark brown in apical half (Fig. 4 F). Wings hyaline, veins including pterostigma brown (Fig. 4 D).</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Comparison.</p><p>The new species E. gamka sp. nov. differs from the closely related E. kirkwoodi and E. africana by the shape of the area superomedia – 1.6 × as long as maximum width (vs. 1.3 × in E. kirkwoodi and 2.4 × in E. africana), hind tarsus distinctly longer as in E. africana (hind tarsus nearly as long as hind tibia in E. kirkwoodi), shorter malar space 1.2 × (vs. 1.75 × in E. kirkwoodi and 1.5 × in E. africana).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Currently only known from South Africa (Western Cape Province).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The species is named after the type locality Gamkaberg which means “ lion mountain ” in Khoisan. Noun in apposition.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/07769C80CEF2542C8A7B12C7DE78BB0F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Humala, Andrei E.;van Noort, Simon	Humala, Andrei E., van Noort, Simon (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, DOI: 10.3897/jhr.98.157523
B72BCC2063F25563BBBFB815CA5E5DD6.text	B72BCC2063F25563BBBFB815CA5E5DD6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eusterinx (Ischyracis) kibale van Noort & Humala 2025	<div><p>Eusterinx (Ischyracis) kibale van Noort &amp; Humala sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 5, 6</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype: Uganda • ♀; Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=30.354366&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=0.56659997" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 30.354366/lat 0.56659997)">Makerere University Biological Field Station</a>; 1495 m; 0°33.996'N, 30°21.262'E; 5–12. viii. 2005; S. van Noort; UG 05-M 15; Malaise trap; secondary mid-altitude rainforest; Eusterinx (Ischyracis) det. G. Broad 2015; IMAGED WaspWeb LAS 4.9 SAMC 2025; SAM-HYM-P 061158 (SAMC).</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female (holotype). Body length 3.5 mm, fore wing length 2.7 mm (Fig. 5 A).</p><p>Head. Head 1.38 × as wide as high in anterior view; eyes glabrous, large and strongly convex; frons shagreen with sparse setae; inner orbits strongly convergent downwards; face nearly polished with sparse setae; maximum face width at level of antennal sockets 1.12 × as high, 0.41 × as wide as head (Fig. 5 E). Antenna with 22 elongate flagellomeres; first flagellomere ca. 7.0 × as long as wide; second flagellomere 0.85 × as long as first flagellomere. Malar space coriaceous, about 1.33 × as long as basal width of mandible, subocular sulcus indistinct; anterior tentorial pits open; clypeus convex, 0.67 × as high as wide. Mandibles slender, strongly twisted inwards and strongly tapered apically, lower tooth small (Fig. 5 E). Maxillary palps very long, almost reaching hind coxa. Occiput weakly coriaceous to polished; occipital carina present dorsally, absent laterally. Ocelli of moderate size; ratio of OOL: maximum diameter of lateral ocellus: POL as 19: 25: 20 (Fig. 5 C). Head distinctly narrowed behind eyes, temple short, 0.27 × as long as eye width.</p><p>Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.7 × as long as maximum height; pronotum polished with distinct epomia; mesoscutum subpolished, covered with dense setae; notauli well developed, meeting in the centre of mesoscutum (Fig. 5 C) and continuing as a short, median longitudinal carina not reaching scuto-scutellar groove. Notauli anteriorly with small protrusion to the outside of the base (Fig. 6 B); epicnemial carina complete ventrally, almost reaching upper part of the mesopleuron; mesopleuron polished and centrally glabrous with setae dorsally and antero-ventrally; short sternaulus anteriorly; metapleuron polished (Fig. 6 B). Propodeum nearly smooth with all carinae developed and with a pair of strong apophyses formed at the junction of lateral longitudinal carina and posterior transverse carina (Fig. 6 B, C). Apophyses somewhat flattened dorsoventrally and rounded apically, as long as hind femur width. Anterior transverse carina forming a crest; area basalis not closed anteriorly, area superomedia elongate, narrowing posteriorly, 2.0 × as long as maximum wide (Fig. 6 C). Spiracles round and small (Fig. 6 B).</p><p>Legs. Legs very slender, hind coxa granulate, hind femur 5.7 × as long as wide, tibial spurs short and slender, hind basitarsus 0.4 × as long as hind tibia; ratio of hind tarsomeres as 39: 23: 18: 11: 19 (Fig. 5 A); claws simple.</p><p>Wings. Wings comparatively narrow (Fig. 6 D). Fore wing without areolet (vein 3 rs-m absent), radius (vein 2 r &amp; Rs) originates from posterior 0.6 of stigma, nervulus (vein 1 cu-a) slightly antefurcal, postnervulus intercepted in lower third; in hind wing nervellus reclivous, straight, not intercepted, discoidella lacking.</p><p>Metasoma. T 1 slender, 4.2 × as long as maximum width posteriorly, petiole with narrow smooth dorsal area, laterally in postpetiole with longitudinal striae; dorsal carina lacking; small spiracle at 0.47 of tergite, sternite fused with tergite, reaching 0.73 of tergite; T 2 coriaceous, 1.5 × as long as maximum width, with irregular longitudinal striae anterolaterally, remaining portion weakly coriaceous with polished medial dorsal section; oval thyridium offset from the base by its length and a half (Fig. 6 E); T 3 almost parallel-sided, weakly coriaceous to polished medially; other tergites subpolished. Ovipositor nearly straight, tapered at apical fifth; ovipositor sheath about 0.4 × as long as hind tibia.</p><p>Colour. Head and mesosoma black; palps pale; apical part of clypeus, mandible orange brown; basal antennomeres, and wing bases yellowish-brown; flagellum mostly brown, with flagellomeres 11–14 pale; metasoma predominantly brown, T 1 black, T 2 dark-brown, posterior margins of T 3 yellowish. Fore and mid legs, hind trochanter and trochantellus yellowish, hind coxa in proximal half dark-brown, yellowish-brown distally, hind femur brown, infuscate with yellow in distal half, distal third of hind tibia and hind tarsus brown; ovipositor sheaths brown, darkened in apical two-fifths. Wings hyaline, veins including pterostigma brown.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Comparison.</p><p>Compared to other Ischyracis species that lack a closed areolet, the new species is characterized by strong apophyses (as long as hind femur width), slender hind legs, short ovipositor, and distinct, but short pale band on flagellum (segments 11–14).</p><p>Allied to E. dzanga sp. nov. which differs in larger size – body length 5.2 mm, fore wing length 3.3 mm (vs. 3.5 mm and 2.7 mm respectively in E. kibale); T 2 1.5 × as long as wide posteriorly (vs. 2.15 × in E. dzanga; 1.35 × in E. africana), and hind femur 5.7 × as long as wide (vs. 6.3 × in E. dzanga; 5.3 × in E. africana). Propodeal apophyses are as long as E. dzanga, short in E. africana, E. gamka and E. kirkwoodi .</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Currently only known from Uganda.</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The species is named after the type locality, Kibale National Park. Noun in apposition.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B72BCC2063F25563BBBFB815CA5E5DD6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Humala, Andrei E.;van Noort, Simon	Humala, Andrei E., van Noort, Simon (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, DOI: 10.3897/jhr.98.157523
B0C53304AE2D5ADAB947E2FF5381D4A1.text	B0C53304AE2D5ADAB947E2FF5381D4A1.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eusterinx (Ischyracis) kirkwoodi Humala & van Noort 2025	<div><p>Eusterinx (Ischyracis) kirkwoodi Humala &amp; van Noort sp. nov.</p><p>Figs 7, 8</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Holotype: South Africa • ♀; E. Cape, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=25.146584&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-33.5454" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 25.146584/lat -33.5454)">Mannetjie Farm</a> (31.9 km 262 ° W Kirkwood); 33°32.724'S, 25°08.795'E; 14–16 Feb. 2001; S. van Noort leg.; Malaise trap, VB 01-R 3 N-M 50, Valley Bushveld (non-trashed), Eusterinx (Ischyracis) det. G. Broad 2016, IMAGED WaspWeb LAS 4.9 SAMC 2024; SAM-HYM-P 041737 (SAMC) .</p><p>Paratype: South Africa • ♀; E. Cape, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=25.410734&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-33.51245" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 25.410734/lat -33.51245)">Blauwe Krans Farm</a> (12.8 km 216 ° SW Kirkwood); 33°30.747'S, 25°24.644'E; 9–16 Feb. 2001; S. van Noort leg.; Yellow pan trap, VB 01-A 3 N-Y 55; Valley Bushveld (non-trashed); Eusterinx (Ischyracis) det. G. Broad 2016; SAM-HYM-P 041738 (SAMC) .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Female (holotype). Body length 4.4 mm, fore wing length 3.0 mm (Fig. 7 A).</p><p>Head. Head 1.33 × as wide as high in anterior view; eyes glabrous, large; inner orbits somewhat convergent downwards; face nearly polished with sparse setae; maximum face width at level of antennal sockets 1.3 × as high, 0.4 × as wide as head (Fig. 7 C). Antenna with 24 flagellomeres, all flagellomeres longer than wide; first flagellomere 5.3 × as long as wide; second flagellomere 0.85 × as long as first flagellomere. Malar space about 2.0 × as long as basal width of mandible, subocular sulcus indistinct; anterior tentorial pits open; clypeus convex, small, narrow, 0.65 × as high as wide, apical margin nearly straight. Mandibles slender, strongly twisted inwards and tapered apically, lower tooth strongly reduced and invisible in front view. Maxillary palps very long, almost reaching middle coxa. Occiput polished; occipital carina present dorsally. Ocelli of moderate size; ratio of OOL: maximum diameter of lateral ocellus: POL as 19: 22: 23 (Fig. 7 B). Head distinctly narrowed behind eyes, temple short, 0.25 × as long as eye width.</p><p>Mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.35 × as long as maximum high; pronotum polished with strong epomia; mesoscutum finely punctured, covered with dense setae; notauli well developed as crenulated furrows, meeting in center of mesoscutum and continuing as a fine median longitudinal carina not reaching scutellum (Fig. 8 B). Epicnemial carina complete ventrally, reaching half height of mesopleuron; mesopleuron polished and mostly glabrous with short sternaulus; metapleuron granulate. Propodeum nearly smooth with all carinae developed except for anterior portions of dorsal longitudinal carinae, with a pair of strong apophyses flattened dorsoventrally formed by posterior transverse carina and lateral carinae (Figs 7 E, 8 A); area basalis not developed; area superomedia 1.3 × as long as maximum width and slightly narrowing posteriorly (Fig. 8 C). Spiracles small and rounded.</p><p>Legs. Legs slender, hind coxa granulate, hind femur 5.0 × as long as wide, tibial spurs short, hind basitarsus 0.4 × as long as hind tibia; ratio of hind tarsomeres as 35: 20: 14: 9: 13; claws simple.</p><p>Wings. Fore wing without areolet (vein 3 rs-m absent), radius (vein 2 r &amp; Rs) originates from middle of stigma, nervulus (vein 1 cu-a) interstitial (Fig. 8 D); postnervulus intercepted nearly in middle; in hind wing nervellus strongly reclivous, not intercepted, discoidella lacking.</p><p>Metasoma. T 1 slender, 4.1 × as long as maximum width posteriorly, with longitudinal striae; dorsal carina lacking; small spiracle at 0.5 of tergite, sternite fused with tergite, reaching 0.67 of tergite; T 2 coriaceous, 1.4 × as long as maximum width posteriorly, with irregular longitudinal striae in anterior 0.8, and weak small thyridium in dorsolateral corner (Fig. 8 E); T 3 weakly coriaceous to granulate, T 4 granulate, T 5 &amp; T 6 granulate to subpolished. Ovipositor nearly straight, tapered at apical quarter; ovipositor sheath about 0.5 × as long as hind tibia.</p><p>Colour. Dark-brown; palps pale, basal antennomeres and wing bases yellowish; mandible, tegula, propleuron, lower pronotum and epicnemium reddish-brown; metasoma mostly dark brown, posterior margins of T 2 – T 3 light brown (Fig. 7 A). Fore and mid legs and hind trochanters yellowish, hind leg predominantly dark brown, excluding yellowish-brown trochanters and distal third of hind tibia; ovipositor sheaths yellowish, darkened in apical half. Wings hyaline, veins including pterostigma brown.</p><p>Male. Unknown.</p><p>Variation.</p><p>There is no variation between the two known specimens. The paratype matches the holotype with respect to size and character states.</p><p>Comparison.</p><p>The new species E. kirkwoodi sp. nov. differs from the closely related E. africana by its larger size – body length 4.4 mm, fore wing length 3.0 mm (vs. 3.6 mm and 2.7 mm, respectively, in E. africana), OOL shorter than maximum diameter of lateral ocellus (OOL longer in E. africana), shorter mesosoma – 1.35 × as long as high (vs. 1.55 × in E. africana), lower degree of convergence of inner orbits (strongly convergent to clypeus in E. africana), wider area superomedia – 1.3 × as long as maximum width (vs. 2.4 × in E. africana), hind tarsus nearly as long as hind tibia (distinctly longer in E. africana).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Currently only known from South Africa (Eastern Cape province).</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The species is named after the closest town to the type localities of both specimens. Noun in apposition.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B0C53304AE2D5ADAB947E2FF5381D4A1	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Humala, Andrei E.;van Noort, Simon	Humala, Andrei E., van Noort, Simon (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, DOI: 10.3897/jhr.98.157523
6D0AD636B66E542A9D89460D5611381F.text	6D0AD636B66E542A9D89460D5611381F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Eusterinx (Ischyracis) undetermined	<div><p>Eusterinx (Ischyracis) unplaced males</p><p>Fig. 9</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>Central African Republic • ♂; Prefecture Sangha-Mbaéré, Parc National de Dzanga-Ndoki, Mabéa Bai, 21.4 km 53 ° NE <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=16.4095&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=3.0335" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 16.4095/lat 3.0335)">Bayanga</a>; 3°02.01'N, 16°24.57'E; 510 m; 6. v. 2001; S. van Noort; Sweep; CAR 01-S 45; Lowland Rainforest, marsh clearing; Eusterinx (Ischyracis) ♂ det. G. Broad 2015; IMAGED WaspWeb LAS 4.9 SAMC 2025; SAM-HYM-P 058451 (SAMC) .</p><p>Uganda • ♂; Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=30.354366&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=0.56659997" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 30.354366/lat 0.56659997)">Makerere University Biological Field Station</a>, 1495 m, 0°33.996'N, 30°21.262'E; 30 vii- 5 viii. 2005; S. van Noort; UG 05-Y 30; Yellow pan trap; Secondary mid-altitude Rainforest; Eusterinx (Ischyracis) ♂ det. G. Broad 2015; IMAGED WaspWeb LAS 4.9 SAMC 2025; SAM-HYM-P 058404 (SAMC) .</p><p>Comments.</p><p>Unplaced males. We examined the above two males from central Africa but are unable to match them to their respective females. They differ markedly from the associated females collected in the same rainforest localities in Central African Republic and Uganda, particularly with respect to presence or absence of banding on the antennae, and relative size of the propodeal apophyses, for both of which they are more typical of the South African species associated with arid habitats. There is clearly sexual dimorphism present in the genus exacerbating reliable matching of the sexes and a barcoding analysis will be required to facilitate resolving conspecifics across the sexes in this genus.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D0AD636B66E542A9D89460D5611381F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Humala, Andrei E.;van Noort, Simon	Humala, Andrei E., van Noort, Simon (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, DOI: 10.3897/jhr.98.157523
