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Cryptus Fabricius

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera;  Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea; Family: Ichneumonidae; Subfamily: Cryptinae; Tribe: Cryptini)

Cryptus Fabricius, 1804. Type species: Cryptus viduatorius Fabricius, 1804.

Cryptus australis Guérin,1848

 

Cryptus lentus Tosquinet, 1896

 

Cryptus madecassus Seyrig, 1952

  Cryptus nigritarsis Kriechbaumer, 1894.

Cryptus rubiginosus Tosquinet, 1896

  Cryptus rufoplagiatus Cameron, 1906

 

Cryptus sokotranus Kohl, 1907

Distribution

Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Yemen, Zimbabwe.

Also Holarctic, Indo-Australian, Neotropical regions.

Biology

Host: unknown.

References

Cameron, P. 1904. Descriptions of new genera and species of Hymenoptera from Dunbrody, Cape Colony. Records of the Albany Museum 1: 125-160.

Cameron, P. 1905. On some undescribed genera and species of parasitic Hymenoptera from Cape Colony and Transvaal, South Africa. (Hym.) Zeitschrift für Systematische Hymenopterologie und Dipterologie 5: 338-343.

Cameron, P. 1905. On the Hymenoptera of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa (Second paper).  Records of the Albany Museum 1: 185-244.

Cameron, P. 1905. On the Hymenoptera of the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa (Third paper).  Records of the Albany Museum 1: 297-314.

Cameron, P. 1906. Descriptions of new species of parasitic Hymenoptera chiefly in the collection of the South African Museum, Cape Town. Annals of the South African Museum 5: 17-186.

Fabricius, J.C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum: secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Carolum Reichard, Brunsvigae. 439+32 pp.

Guérin-Méneville, F.E. 1848. Ordre des Hymenopteres. In: Lefebyre "Voyage en Abyssinie." (4)6: 346-348.

Tosquinet, J. 1896. Contributions à la faune entomologique de l'Afrique. Ichneumonides. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 5: 1-430.

Credits

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Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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