Genus Cremnops

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 Braconidae (Braconid Wasps)

Subfamily Agathidinae

Tribe Cremnoptini

Genus Cremnops

Identification

-colors in various shades of red to yellow, usually marked with black

HEAD

-head strongly produced below the eyes, narrowed toward labrum

-malar space varying from a little shorter to a little longer than the eye height

-ocelli arranged in a nearly equilateral triangle

-frontal impressions deep, margined basally and laterally to lateral ocelli, this margin forming two projections between antennae

-antennae 35- to 45-segmented;

-anterior tentorial pits deeply impressed

-labrum usually wider than long, occasionally as wide as long

-mandibles bidentate, apical tooth larger than subapical one

-maxillae and labium united and elongate, maxillary and labial palpi elongate

THORAX

-apex of pronotum with large, deep pits on each side of midline, these united in one species

-notaulices well defined, rarely indistinct, often foveolate

-posterior angles of scutum produced into vertically compressed plates, curving inward in one species

-scutum with a deep transverse groove in front of scutellum (prescutellar groove)

-mesopleural furrow present, arising at base of middle coxa and extending forward on mesopleuron, usually foveolate, varying in size and shape

-propodeum with three distinct longitudinal carinae on each side and many transverse carinae

WINGS

-wings fuliginous, second submarginal cell of forewing quadrate

LEGS

-legs long, slender except hind femora which are often short and robust, hind tibia with two or more stout spines at outer distal end

-front and middle tarsal claws always cleft, posterior ones usually cleft, but occasionally with a broad basal tooth

ABDOMEN

-abdomen elongate

-ovipositor of female usually as long as abdomen, barely exserted in one species

-male genitalia with volsellae lying in a horizontal plane between parameres, digiti strongly developed, turning laterally and dorsally on ends of volsellae, aedeagus simple, broad and grooved (description of male genitalia from Snodgrass 1941)

Genus Cremnops

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