Cryptophion, Viereck, 1913

Onody, Helena Carolina & Penteado-Dias, Angélica Maria, 2016, A new species of Cryptophion (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from southeastern Brazil, Zoologia (e 20150101) 33 (1), pp. 1-5 : 3-4

Identification key for Brazilian species of Cryptophion

1. Scutellum bearing long and dense white pubescence, and with distinct lateral longitudinal carina extending for about half of its length; hind leg with tarsal claw simple, not pectinate and tarsus entirely black ( Fig. 8 )....................... C. guillermoi

1’. Scutellum bearing long and dense yellowish pubescence, and with irregular lateral longitudinal rugae ( Fig. 5 ); hind leg with tarsal claw pectinate, or with a single pectinal tooth and females with tarsus yellow, except for the distal segment, orange .................................................................................2

2. Interocellar distance 2.0-2.2 times the orbital-ocelar distance; forewing with areolet petiolate above; mesoscutum uniformly punctate, with punctures separated from each other by approximately their own diameters, except in notaular region were they are coarser and closer; hind tarsal claw with a single subapical pectinal tooth, small and not distinctly longer than arolium ( Fig. 9 ) .............................. C. espinozai

2’. Interocellar distance 1.5 times the orbital-ocellar distance; forewing with areolet not distinctly petiolate above; mesoscutum more or less uniformly punctate, except the notaular region with coarser and irregular rugae ( Fig. 4 ); hind tarsal claw pectinate, with a large space in the middle and distinctly longer than the arolium ( Fig. 6 )........................... ............................................................ C. atlanticus sp. nov.

Figures

Figures 8-9. Habitus of females of Cryptophion species in lateral view: (8) C. guillermoi; (9) C. espizonai. Scale bar: 0.8 mm.

Figures 3-6. Cryptophion atlanticus sp. nov. (female, paratype): (3) head in frontal view; (4) mesoscutum in dorsal view; (5) scutellum in dorsal view; (6) hind tarsal claw. Scale bars: 2, 4 = 500 µm; 3 = 0.5 mm; 5 = 200 µm.