Cryptoxilos Viereck, 1911

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Ku, Deokseo, 2023, Braconid imagobionts from the tribe Cosmophorini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Euphorinae) in the fauna of South Korea, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, pp. 129-154 : 129

Genus Cryptoxilos Viereck, 1911

Type species.

Cryptoxilos dichromorphus Viereck, 1911.

This is a relatively small and rare euphorine genus that belong to the tribe Cosmophorini , and currently contains seven described species ( Stigenberg et al. 2015; Yu et al. 2016). Members of Cryptoxilos are koinobiont endoparasitoids (imagobionts) of bark-boring beetle adults ( Curculionidae , Scolytinae ) ( Shaw 1985; Yu et al. 2016). Species of this genus have been recorded in the Nearctic (2), Neotropical (1), Oceanic (Fiji) (1), Australasian (New Zealand) (1), and Palaearctic (2) regions ( Shaw 1985; Chen et al. 2001; Shaw and Berry 2005).

The two species of Cryptoxilos previously known for the Palaearctic region belong to the Old World subgenus Cryptoxilos Cryptoxiloides Čapek & Capecki, 1979, and were described from Europe (Poland) and the Eastern Palaearctic (China: Zhejiang) ( Čapek and Capecki 1979; Chen et al. 2001). A third species of Cryptoxilos (Cryptoxiloides) is described here from South Korea (Ulleung Island), with the first record of this genus for the Korean Peninsula.