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Distribution |
Worldwide. |
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Biology |
Ectoparasitoids of
Psychidae (Lepidoptera). |
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Diagnosis |
Body almost always small (forewing 2.2–7.5 mm), slender
and somewhat elongate. Clypeus moderately convex, separated from face by
groove; apical margin sharp, truncate or concave, without median teeth
or tubercles. Lower tooth of mandible as long as or slightly longer than
upper tooth. Apical truncation of flagellum distinctly oblique. Male
antenna with tyloids. Hypostomal carina joining occipital carina near or
at base of mandible. Epomia absent. Epicnemial carina ventrally absent,
laterally distinct; sternaulus weak and shallow; postpectal carina
complete; mesopleural fovea absent or very shallow. Hind margin of
metanotum without teeth-like projections. Foretibia of female never
swollen. Apex of tarsomere 4 not bilobed. Areolet large, wider than
long, vein 2-M distinctly shorter than 3-M, crossvein 3r-m absent or
spectral; forewing crossvein 2m-cu distinct, with a single bulla.
Hindwing vein M+Cu distinctly arched; vein 2-1A absent or very short.
First metasomal tergite without glymma, often with longitudinal
wrinkles, spiracle near its mid-length. Thyridium small; gastrocoeli
absent. Ovipositor at least 0.6× as long as hind tibia; ovipositor
sheath flexible (Santos, 2017). |
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References |
Santos BF. 2017.
Phylogeny and reclassification of Cryptini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae,
Cryptinae), with implications for ichneumonid higher-level
classification. Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/syen.12238
Santos BF, Alvarado M, Sääksjärvi IE, van
Noort S, Villemant C & Brady SG. 2018.
Molecular phylogeny of Ateleutinae
(Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae): systematics and biogeography of a widespread
parasitoid wasp lineage. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society
zly072
https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly072
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Credits
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Photographs
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Banner image © Vida van der Walt. |
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Acaenitinae;
Anomaloninae;
Banchinae;
Brachycyrtinae;
Sisyrostolinae;
Campopleginae;
Cremastinae;
Cryptinae;
Ctenopelmatinae;
Diplazontinae;
Eucerotinae;
Ichneumoninae;
Lycorininae;
Mesochorinae;
Metopiinae;
Ophioninae;
Orthocentrinae;
Pimplinae;
Rhyssinae;
Tersilochinae;
Tryphoninae;
Xoridinae
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