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Crytea Cameron

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

Crytea  Cameron, 1906. Type species: Crytea varicornis Cameron, 1906.

Crytea alba Heinrich, 1968
 

Crytea albicalcea Heinrich, 1968

  Crytea albifrons Heinrich, 1968
Crytea albitrochanterata (Heinrich, 1938)
  Crytea aliena Heinrich, 1968

   

 Crytea bigilvata Heinrich, 1968

   

Crytea brevistriata Heinrich, 1968

   

Crytea cavillosa (Tosquinet, 1896)

  Crytea cedrora Heinrich, 1968

Crytea_ceta_HOLOTYPE 

Crytea ceta (Morley, 1917)

  Crytea cognata (Heinrich, 1938)
  Crytea deformis (Heinrich, 1938)

   

Crytea deutera Heinrich, 1968  

  Crytea dubia (Szépligeti, 1908)
  Crytea frequentior (Heinrich, 1938)

   

Crytea frontalis (Szépligeti, 1908)

   

Crytea fuscomaculata Cameron, 1906

  Crytea gabelincola Heinrich, 1968

   

Crytea gilvicornis Heinrich, 1968

   

Crytea graciliventer Heinrich, 1968

  Crytea guineana Heinrich, 1968
Crytea_hemerythraea_HOLOTYPE Crytea hemerythraea (Morley, 1917)

   

Crytea immaculaticeps Heinrich, 1968

Crytea_leucotrochus_HOLOTYPE

 

Crytea leucotrochus (Kriechbaumer, 1894)

  Crytea lissogena Heinrich, 1968
  Crytea mbeyana Heinrich, 1968

 

Crytea melanothorax Heinrich, 1968

   

Crytea meruensis (Heinrich, 1936)

  Crytea mesomelas Heinrich, 1968
  Crytea mesoxantha (Szépligeti, 1908)

   

Crytea nairobiensis (Heinrich, 1936)  

 

Crytea novanana Heinrich, 1968

  Crytea nyassae Heinrich, 1968
Crytea_phorcys_HOLOTYPE Crytea phorcys (Morley, 1917)

Crytea_plagiceps_HOLOTYPE

Crytea plagiceps (Kriechbaumer, 1894)    

  Crytea proletes (Heinrich, 1938)
  Crytea pumilio (Heinrich, 1938)

Crytea quadrigilvata Heinrich, 1968

  Crytea sublunifer (Morley, 1919)

   

Crytea superbula Heinrich, 1968

 

Crytea townesi Heinrich, 1968

Crytea_tricolor_HOLOTYPE Crytea tricolor (Kriechbaumer, 1894)
  Crytea tricolorata Heinrich, 1968

Crytea tsitsikamae Heinrich, 1968

   Crytea_varicornis_HOLOTYPE

Crytea varicornis Cameron, 1906

Distribution

Crytea_map

Afrotropical region: Guinea, Sierre Leone, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa.

Palaearctic region: Algeria, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Madeira Islands, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia.

Biology

Hosts: Aletia pallens (Noctuidae), Despressaria heracliana (Despessariidae).

References

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.

Rousse, P. & Villemant, C. 2012. Ichneumons in Reunion Island: a catalogue of the local Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) species, including 15 new taxa and a key to species. Zootaxa 3278: 1–57.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or by Agničle Touret-Alby © MNHN (specimens database http://coldb.mnhn.fr).
  Next genus: Ctenichneumonops

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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

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