Polyphrix cristata Nogueira & Aguiar

Santos, Bernardo F., Aguiar, Alexandre P. & Tedesco, Anazélia M., 2009, Phylogenetic revision and the origin of Polyphrix Townes (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 2214, pp. 29-44 : 40-42

Polyphrix cristata Nogueira & Aguiar

Polyphrix cristata Nogueira & Aguiar 2005 ; 30–31. Description, figure, distribution. Holotype Ƥ UFES (currently at MZSP).

The examined specimens have most of the features described by Nogueira & Aguiar (2005) for the species, except for the following additions or differences: Length of fore wing 7.88–9.57 mm. Antenna with 30–33 flagellomeres; CWW 2.02; MLW 1.90; MWW 0.66; occipital carina sometimes almost reaching hypostomal carina; lamellar protuberance at pronotum sometimes rather weak; SWL 1.84; anterior carina of propodeum sometimes weak laterally, area behind it with 10–13 complete or incomplete transverse wrinkles; APH 0.67; fore wing vein 3-rs sometimes slightly longer than 2-rs; hind wing vein 2-1A reaching up to 0.84 the distance to posterior margin of wing; T1LW 3.93; T1WW 1.57; T2LW 1.36; last 3–4 teeth of ventral valve of ovipositor sometimes conspicuous. Color: white band on flagellum from flagellomeres 8–9, to 16–17, basal and last ones usually only partially marked with white; para-ocular stripe sometimes interrupted from posterior orbit to gena; collar white to yellow, sometimes marked with dark brown; 0.3–0.7 of tegula sometimes blackish; about 0.8 of post-scutellum sometimes yellow; brown area in front of anterior carina of propodeum sometimes restricted to antero-lateral portions; area behind anterior carina sometimes without distinct brown spots, anterior 0.6 usually dark orange; hind tarsi pale yellow to white apically; first metasomal tergite sometimes with basal 0.1–0.2 orange; tergite 8 usually with posterior margin white; margin of tergites 5–6 sometimes very narrow, tergite 7 sometimes without white margin.

Distribution records. The original description recorded the species only from Santa Maria de Jetibá, at Espírito Santo highlands, southeastern Brazil (20º01'33''S, 40º44'30''W); Four new records are provided here: one from Itororó, Bahia (15º03'45''S, 39º06'24''W); one from Reserva Biológica de Duas Bocas, at Cariacica, Espírito Santo (20º16'21''S, 40º28'40''W), Brazil; one from Botucatu, São Paulo (22º53'09''S, 48º26'42''W); and one from Jundiaí do Sul, Paraná (23º27'00''S, 50º17'00''W). These four records comprise a total latitude of 8º23'15''.

Material examined. UFES: 1 Ƥ from BRAZIL, Bahia, Itororó, Fazenda Guanabara, 15º03'45''S, 39º06'24''W, 25.XI.2002, Malaise trap, pt. 8, J. Cardoso & J. Maia;1 Ƥ from BRAZIL, Espírito Santo, Cariacica, Reserva Biológica de Duas Bocas, 20º16'21''S, 40º28'40''W, 2–3.V.2005, yellow pans, pt. 11, APAguiar et al.; 1 Ƥ from BRAZIL, São Paulo, Botucatu, Fazenda Jaciobá, 5–7.II.2005, yellow pans, E.F. Santos & C.P. Scott-Santos. DZUP: 1 Ƥ from BRAZIL, Paraná, Jundiaí do Sul, Fazenda Monte Verde, 19.I.1987, Lev. Ent. PROFAUPAR, Malaise trap.