Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863

Reynolds, Terry & van Noort, Simon, 2023, Two new species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) with an updated key to African species, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, pp. 667-696 : 667

Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863

Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 21: 292. Type-species Phytodietus blandus Gravenhorst, 1914.

Complete diagnosis.

Provided in Reynolds Berry and van Noort (2016).

Summary diagnosis.

Afrotropical representatives of the genus can be distinguished by a combination of traits: a flagellum that tapers to a slender apex; a complete occipital carina, that joins the hypostomal carina distant from the base of the mandible; a longer upper mandibular tooth than lower tooth; absence of the epomia; a truncate-shaped fore wing areolet; the hind wing with Cu1 longer than cu-a; presence of a glymma; a strongly anteriorly narrowed first tergite, and an ovipositor that is 0.5-0.7 × as long as the hind tibia ( Reynolds Berry and van Noort 2020).