Subfamily Cryptinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Ichneumon Wasp - Compsocryptus calipterus - female

Ichneumon or Braconid - Cryptus albitarsis - female

unknown Ichneumonid - Cryptus albitarsis - female

Ichneumon wasp - Cryptanura spinaria - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)

No Taxon ("Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps)

Superfamily Ichneumonoidea (Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps)

Family Ichneumonidae (Ichneumonid Wasps)

Subfamily Cryptinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Gelinae of Townes (=Phygadeuontinae of authors) is now split into a separate subfamily, Phygadeuontinae, by Santos (2017). However, these names historically had been applied to a singular subfamily comprising Cryptinae + Phygadeuontinae.

Explanation of Names

Cryptinae Kirby 1837

Numbers

Largest subfamily of Ichneumonidae. Almost 400 genera in 4 tribes, 3 tribes with 765 spp. in 106 genera represented north of Mexico(1)(2)

Identification

Narrow convex clypeus, visible sternaulus, strong notauli, depressed abdomen with the first segment slender basally becoming widened apically, and ovipositor about half the length of the abdomen.

Range

Worldwide(3)

Food

Mostly external parasites of pupae and cocoons; a few attack wood-boring beetle larvae, others attack larvae of Diptera, a few are hyperparasites of braconids and other ichneumonid wasps.(4).

Remarks

Some are wingless.

Print References

Santos, Bernardo F. 2017. Phylogeny and reclassification of Cryptini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with implications for ichneumonid higher-level classification. Systematic Entomology 42(4): 650–676. (abstract)

Internet References

Discover Life (NB: This source follows Townes's classification)

Works Cited

1.	Classification and Systematics of the Ichneumonidae

2.	Carlson R.W. () Ichneumonidae catalog

3.	van Noort S. (2004-2015) WaspWeb: Wasps, bees and ants of Africa and Madagascar

4.	Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn. 2004. Brooks Cole.

Contributed by tom murray on 23 January, 2006 - 3:31pm
Additional contributions by josephfortier, Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 7 October, 2023 - 10:18pm

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