Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863

Takasuka, Keizo, Watanabe, Kyohei & Konishi, Kazuhiko, 2011, Genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg new to Sulawesi, Indonesia, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), Journal of Hymenoptera Research 23, pp. 65-75 : 66

Genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863

Synonymy.

See Townes (1970) and Yu et al. (2005) for synonymy.

Diagnosis.

Cryptopimpla can be distinguished from all other banchine genera by the following combination of characters: lower end of occipital carina joining hypostomal carina above base of mandible; apical 0.3-0.4 of flagellum tapered towards apex; epomia absent; lower half of mesopleuron weakly convex or flat; posterior transverse carina of propodeum complete, or sometimes partly weak; pleural carina present, sometimes weak; areolet present, its petiole short or absent; 2m-cu with two bullae or a single wide bulla; hind wing with distal abscissa of Cu1 much closer to 1A than to M; first metasomal tergite with glymma, its spiracle before the middle, its dorsal profile strongly convex before the spiracle; median dorsal carina on first metasomal tergite absent; ovipositor shorter than hind tibia, sometimes upcurved.

Remarks.

Keys to species of Cryptopimpla have been published for the following regions: Oriental ( Chandra and Gupta 1977), Russian Far East ( Kuslitzky 2007), China ( Sheng and Zheng 2005; Sheng 2011), Japan ( Momoi 1970), Europe ( Aubert 1978; Schwarz 2003 treating only species with black metasomal tergites) and the Nearctic ( Townes and Townes 1978). All the described species with black metasomal tergites, except for the Afrotropical Cryptopimpla rubrithorax Morley, 1916, are included in these keys. Although the species collected from Sulawesi possesses a black metasoma, it could not be assigned to any described species by the keys or by comparison with the description of Cryptopimpla rubrithorax , and most described species are very unlikely to be found in Sulawesi. None of the described species would be expected to match this species from Sulawesi, considering differences in climate and geography, because most described species are distributed in the temperate or subtropical regions, especially in the northern hemisphere.