Cryptodoryctes
A small genus with one species described [1].
References
- , “Taxapad 2012, Ichneumonoidea 2011. Database on flash-drive.”. www.taxapad.com, Ottawa, Canada., 2012.
Unknown.
Head. Head subcubical, 1.4-1.5 times wider than long medially. First flagellar segment nearly as long as 2nd segment. Scapus rather short and wide, without apical lobe; almost 1.5 times longer than maximum width. Palpi long; maxillary palpi 6-segmented, labial palpi 4-segmented; 3rd segment of labial palp relatively long. Malar suture absent. Clypeal suture complete. Hypoclypeal depression medium-sized and round. Face with 2 distinct submedial oval depressions above the clypeal suture. Eyes glabrous. Ocelli in triangle with base 1.2 times longer than sides. Occipital carina entirely absent. Postgenal bridge very narrow. Frons not concave and without median keel.
Mesosoma. Mesosoma depressed. Neck, rather long, with convex dorsal lobe; pronope present, but shallow; pronotal keel distinct, near anterior margin of pronotum. Propleural lobe distinct and narrow. Mesonotum not strongly and roundly raised above pro-mesosoma. Median lobe of mesoscutum without antero-lateral angulations (corners). Notauli smooth, deep in anterior half, very shallow on posterior half. Prescutellar depression rather King and sparsely sculptured. Scuto-scutellar suture distinct. Scutellum weakly convex, without lateral carinae, striate posteriorly, its length nearly equal to maximum width. Postscutellum without median tooth. Subalar depression shallow and wide. Mesopleural pit deep and round. Sternauli deep, narrow, long, straight and smooth. Prepectal carina distinct and complete. Metapleural flange rather short, wide and pointed apically. Propodeum without margined areas; lateral tubercles and propodeal bridge absent. Propodeal spiracles small and round.
Wings. Pterostigma of fore wing wide; vein r arising from close to middle of pterostigma. Marginal cell slightly shortened. Fore wing veins 2RS and r-m present. Vein m-cu antefurcal. Vein lcu-a postfurcal. First discal cell petiolate. Vein 2CUb arising from posterior quarter of distal side of 1st subdiscal cell. First subdiscal cell closed. Vein M + CU not curved towards vein 1A. Hind wing with 3 hamuli on vein R1. Vein cu-a present. Subbasal cell short. Vein M + CU 0.4 times length of 1M. Vein m-cu present, curved toward base of wing. Basal cell wide; nearly 0.5 times as long as hind wing. Vein RS arising from vein R1. Marginal cell weakly widened apically, without transverse vein. Vein C + SC + R 0.8 times length of SC+R.
Legs. All tibiae slender. Fore tibia with sparse large spines more or less arranged in a single row. Hind tibia with 1-3 spines on outer side and with area of dense white setae on inner distal edge. Hind coxa rather large, without basoventral tooth. Femora without anterodorsal protuberances. Hind femur 3.2-3.3 times as long as wide . Hind tibial spurs rather short and slender, setose, inner spur 0.2-0.25 times as long as hind basitarsus. Hind basitarsus 0.9 times as long as 2nd-5th segments combined.
Metasoma. First tergite not petiolate, rather wide. Acrosternite 0.2 times as long as 1st tergite, its apical margin located anterior to spiracles. Dorsope of 1st tergite large; basolateral lobes absent. Spiracular tubercles indistinct, spiracles in basal quarter of 1st tergite; dorsal carinae present on basal half. Second suture fine, with strong breaks laterally. Second tergite with parallel, lateral, wide furrows. Second to 3rd tergites with separate laterotergites. Hypopygium small, without medioposterior process. Ovipositor longer than metasoma, down-curved apically; apex of dorsal valve with 3 small nodes and apex of ventral valves serrate. (From Belokobylskij & Quicke, 2000).
Cryptodoryctes is an African genus that appears to be related to Priosphys Enderlein and Odontodoryctes Granger, with which it shares the following putative synapomorphies: absence of the basoventral tubercle of the hind coxa and the short subbasal cell of the hind wing. It lacks an occipital carina but has a distinct pronope on the anterodorsal part of the neck [1].
References
- , “Seven new genera of the subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the old world.”, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 111-141, 2000.
Afrotropical.