Gentry et all report more than 300 species for the genus Sterculia. "Large canopy trees of mature lowland forest, especially on good soil. Leaves often palmately lobed (specially in juveniles, even when mature foliage unlobed), clustered at branchlet apices, of markedly different sizes and petiole lengths in each cluster, with well-developed pulvinus or flexion at the end of petiole. Fruit every distinctive, aporcarpous, with 5 separte pollicles, each lined with urticating trichomes and containing several unwinged seeds. Other names in Spanish for Colombia are: teta vieja, camajoru." (p. 803)

Avispa de la familia Ichneumonidae, probablemente sea nativa de Colombia, se han hecho muy pocas observaciones desde su descubrimiento en 1877,existen pocos organismos depositados en colecciones biológicas, este fue capturado por casualidad en un edificio del Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas de la Universidad de los Andes.