Cryptus, Fabricius, 1804

Santos, Bernardo F. & Brady, Seán G., 2024, Leveraging museum specimens, genomics and legacy datasets to unravel the phylogeny and biogeography of cryptin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptini), Zoologica Scripta 53 (3), pp. 338-357 : 352

4.3.5 | Clade D: Cryptus group

Relative to S17, two genera were added to this clade: Synechocryptus Schmiedeknecht was always recovered as sister to the Afrotropical Gessia Townes. The monotypic Nearctic genus Reptatrix Townes was sister to the Eastern Palearctic Calaminus Townes. The internal topology of this clade largely agrees with the results from S17. All results indicate the need for further work to better understand the taxonomic limits among the morphologically similar Cryptus Fabricius , Buathra Cameron , Meringopus Förster and Nippocryptus Uchida.