Identification key for Brazilian species of Cryptophion

1. Scutellum bearing long and dense white pubescence, and with distinct lateral longitudinal carina extending for about half of its length; hind leg with tarsal claw simple, not pectinate and tarsus entirely black (Fig. 8)....................... C. guillermoi

1’. Scutellum bearing long and dense yellowish pubescence, and with irregular lateral longitudinal rugae (Fig. 5); hind leg with tarsal claw pectinate, or with a single pectinal tooth and females with tarsus yellow, except for the distal segment, orange .................................................................................2

2. Interocellar distance 2.0-2.2 times the orbital-ocelar distance; forewing with areolet petiolate above; mesoscutum uniformly punctate, with punctures separated from each other by approximately their own diameters, except in notaular region were they are coarser and closer; hind tarsal claw with a single subapical pectinal tooth, small and not distinctly longer than arolium (Fig. 9) .............................. C. espinozai

2’. Interocellar distance 1.5 times the orbital-ocellar distance; forewing with areolet not distinctly petiolate above; mesoscutum more or less uniformly punctate, except the notaular region with coarser and irregular rugae (Fig. 4); hind tarsal claw pectinate, with a large space in the middle and distinctly longer than the arolium (Fig. 6)........................... ............................................................ C. atlanticus sp. nov.