Osprynchotus, Spinola, 1841

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 : 353

4.3.10 | Clade I: Osprynchotus group

This small clade includes five genera that are exclusively parasitoids of mud-nesting aculeate wasps, four of which are in Townes' former ‘Osprynchotina’, in addition to Neocryptopteryx and the newly added Picrocryptoides , which appear as sister groups. Hosts of Picrocryptoides are still unknown. Neocryptopteryx hypodineri is a parasitoid of Hypodynerus ( Vespidae , Eumeninae ; Porter, 1967a), though others of its species attack Lepidoptera ( Blanchard, 1947) . The taxonomic limits of Neocryptopteryx are still unclear, as Porter (2008) moved many species previously assigned to the genus back to Trachysphyrus without providing an explanation. Following the placement of T. riojanus in a distinct clade separate from the more typically Chilean Trachysphyrus and its similarity to taxa previously in Neocryptopteryx , we assign it to the latter genus following the taxonomic delimitation in Porter (1987). Otherwise, the topology of the Osprynchotus clade mirrors exactly that of S17.