Ceratomansa, Cushman, 1922

Santos, Bernardo F. & Brady, Seán G., 2024, Leveraging museum specimens, genomics and legacy datasets to unravel the phylogeny and biogeography of cryptin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptini), Zoologica Scripta 53 (3), pp. 338-357 : 352

4.3.7 | Clade F: Ceratomansa group

Three genera were added to this small clade of exclusively Australasian taxa. Junctivena gallowayi Gauld was sister to Ceratomansa + Wuda , and Aprix nutatoria and Neaprix sp. were sister to each other. The internal topology of the clade differs substantially from that of S17; notably, the taxa showing the ‘Dutilleul syndrome’ traits ( Wuda , Lorio and Lophoglutus ) appear in two separate clades rather than forming a monophyletic group; since Aprix also shares some of these morphological traits, taxa with putative adaptations to attack deeply concealed hosts seem to have evolved at least three times within the clade. Their monophyletic status in S17 probably derives from the higher weight of the morphological characters in the final matrix as compared to their small proportion of total character composition when UCE data are added. It is also noteworthy that Lophoglutus appeared as monophyletic in our current tree, as opposed to being paraphyletic with respect to Lorio in S17. Our tree also confirms that the Australian representatives of the widely distributed genera Anacis and Myrmeleonostenus actually represent separate Australasian lineages that need to be described as their own genera pending more detailed taxonomic work.