Cryptophion, Viereck, 1913

Santos, Alvaro Doria Dos, Onody, Helena Carolina & Palacio, Edgard, 2022, First record of Cryptophion Viereck, 1913 (Ichneumonidae: Campopleginae) from Colombia, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5209 (4), pp. 483-489 : 488-489

Identification key for all known species of Cryptophion

1. Hind tarsal claw fully pectinate to the apical tooth........................................................... 2

- Hind tarsal claw simple or with a single subapical pectinal tooth................................................ 5

2. Scutellum bearing white pubescence, with lateral longitudinal carinae strong, extending to the center, the posterior ends of these carinae raised into small tubercles so in lateral view the scutellum is pyramidal......................... C. inaequalipes

- Scutellum bearing yellowish pubescence, with lateral longitudinal carinae well-developed or irregular, but never pyramidal in lateral view.......................................................................................... 3

3. Hind tarsal claw with a large space between basal and apical denticles; first segment of metasoma entirely black................................................................................................... C. atlanticus

- Hind tarsal claw without a space in the middle; first segment of metasoma stramineous or yellow and black coloured..... 4

4. Fore and mid legs entirely yellow, and hind leg with coxae black to yellowish, femora and tibiae reddish brown, the later brownish at the base............................................................................ C. strandi

- All legs with coxae black, and hind leg with femora and tibiae black, the later reddish at the base.................................................................................................. C. flavonigrovittatus sp. nov.

5. Mesoscutum centrally and lateral to notaulus with punctures obsolescent and widely scattered, and with a moderately large impunctate area discernible centrally..................................................................... ..6

- Mesoscutum uniformly punctate, the punctures in the notaular region separated by about their own diameter, or with the punctures larger and closer.............................................................................. 7

6. Hind coxa black; forward projecting flange on propleuron entirely black.................................. C. tickelli

- Hind coxa red; forward projecting flange on propleuron yellow marked.................................. C. moragai

7. Hind tarsus entirely black; hind tibia subcylindrical, barely compressed towards distal apex, centrally pale yellowish, proximally and distally black........................................................................... C. guillermoi

- Hind tarsus almost entirely yellow, at most only infuscate at base of first and on distal segments; hind tibia strongly compressed towards distal apex, more or less entirely reddish brown or yellowish, sometimes narrowly infuscate at the base.......... 8

8. Scape yellow to yellowish brown; posterior transverse carina of mesosternum lateromedially not or weakly produced into very low rounded protuberances which are separated by an extremely shallow U-shaped concavity................. C. manueli

- Scape black; female with posterior transverse carina of mesosternum strongly raised into acute protuberances lateromedially, centrally with a deep V-shaped concave area (in males the carina is weakly raised lateromedially, with a broad, U-shaped central concavity................................................................................... C. espinozai