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Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Parasitica" - Parasitoid Wasps » Braconid and Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonoidea) » Ichneumonid Wasps (Ichneumonidae) » Cryptinae » Aptesini » Aptesis » Aptesis nigrocincta

Life history of Aptesis nigrocincta (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) a cocoon parasitoid of the apple sawfly, Hoplocampa testudinea

By Dirk Babendreier
Bulletin of Entomological Research 90, 291–297, 2000

Full title: Life history of Aptesis nigrocincta (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) a cocoon parasitoid of the apple sawfly, Hoplocampa testudinea (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 5 September, 2021 - 6:23pm

Gambrus wileyi (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), a new Cryptine wasp from Florida

By Julieta Brambila
Insecta Mundi, Vol. 11, Nos. 3-4, 247-254, 1997

Includes a key to FL Gambrus
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 13 December, 2015 - 6:57pm

Review of North American species of the genus Lymeon Foerster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae)

By Kasparyan D.R., Ruíz C.E.
Zoosystematica Rossica 13: 53-79, 2004

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Contributed by v belov on 26 August, 2021 - 4:31pm

A revision of the North American ichneumon-flies of the genus Mesostenus and related genera

By Cushman, P.A.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 74(2761): 1-58, 1929

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 4 July, 2015 - 11:17am

Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America

By D.R. Kasparyan & E. Ruíz Cancino
Zoosystematica Rossica 15, 2006

Full title: Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini)

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This work includes a few corrections to the listing in Nomina Insecta Nearctica:
• Records of Cryptanura lamentaria (Cameron 1885) are noted as misidentifications.
• C. vallis Porter 1977 is listed as a junior synonym of C. ectypa (Cresson, 1873).
• The species count for the USA is reported as 4.

Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 27 April, 2022 - 3:04pm

The Ichneumon-Flies of the Genus Cryptanura Brulle, mainly Tropical American

By Cushman, R.A.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 96(3193):139-176, 1945

Cushman's original descriptions of Cryptanura, including two species of this tropical genus to be found in the United States, C. Banchiformis and C. Septentrionalis
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 8 October, 2015 - 4:24pm

A review of North American species of Messatoporus Cushman (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Cryptini)

By Kasparyan DR and Cancino ER
Zoosystematica Rossica, 14(1): 105-122, 2005

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Includes Mexican species

Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 11 November, 2023 - 11:50am

Phylogeny and revision of Messatoporus Cushman (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with description of sixty five new speci

By Bernardo Santos and Alexandre P. Aguiar
Zootaxa, 3634(1), 1-284, 2013

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Contributed by Jonathan Hoskins on 28 August, 2021 - 6:11pm

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