Cryptinae

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Subfamily of wasps

title: "Cryptinae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cryptinae", "apocrita-subfamilies"] description: "Subfamily of wasps" topic_path: "general/cryptinae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptinae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Subfamily of wasps ::

| image = Acroricnus seductor elegans (24092623509).jpg | image_caption = Acroricnus sp. | taxon = Cryptinae | authority = Kirby, 1837 | subdivision_ranks = Tribes | subdivision = Aptesini

Cryptini | synonyms =

  • Gelinae Viereck, 1918 (in part)
  • Hemitelinae Förster, 1869 (in part)
  • Phygadeuontinae Förster, 1868 (in part) Cryptinae is a subfamily of wasps in the family Ichneumonidae. The family has also been called Gelinae, Hemitelinae, and Phygadeuontinae by various authorities,

Description

Species are distributed worldwide. A 5-sided areolet, a short sternaulus, and a puffy face with a convex clypeus are diagnostic characters for most members of this large subfamily.

Taxonomy

Gelinae was the name used by H. K. Townes in 1969. Fitton and Gauld's review of ichneumonid families synonymized Gelinae under Hemitelinae in 1976 and later as Phygadeuontinae in 1978. However, due to the decision of International Code of Zoological Nomenclature's Opinion 1715 in 1994 to conserve the status of the genus Cryptus Fabricius, 1804, both Gelinae and Phygadeuontinae became junior synonyms for Cryptinae. Santos later restricted the family in 2017 to only include the tribes Aptesini and Cryptini, forming the separate families Claseinae and Phygadeuontinae for the remaining tribes of Claseini (1 genus) and Phygadeuontini (123 genera), respectively.

There are about 273 genera in Cryptinae between the tribes of Aptesini and Cryptini.

Classification

The following classification of Phygadeuontini is based on Wahl (2014):

Tribe Cryptini

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Tribe Aptesini

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Aptesis_nigrocincta_02.JPG" caption="''[[Aptesis nigrocincta]]'', female"] ::

References

References

  1. Santos, B.F.. (2017). "Phylogeny and reclassification of Cryptini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with implications for ichneumonid higher-level classification". Systematic Entomology.
  2. [http://www.waspweb.org/ichneumonoidea/ichneumonidae/cryptinae/ Cryptinae.] WaspWeb. Iziko Museums.
  3. Townes, Henry K.. (1969). "Genera of Ichneumonidae, Part 2 (Gelinae)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute.
  4. (1976). "The family-group names of the Ichneumonidae (excluding Ichneumoninae) (Hymenoptera)". Systematic Entomology.
  5. (1978). "Further notes on family-group names of the Ichneumonidae (excluding Ichneumoninae) (Hymenoptera)". Systematic Entomology.
  6. . (1994). ["Opinion 1757. ''Cryptus'' Fabricius, 1804 and Cryptinae Kirby, 1837 (Insecta, Hymenoptera): conserved"](http://www.archive.org/stream/bulletinofzoolog51inte#page/74/mode/2up). *ICZN*.
  7. Broad, G., & Barthélémy, C. (2012). [https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=1584 A new species of ''Hadrocryptus'' (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae), with the first account of the biology for the genus.] ''Journal of Hymenoptera Research'', 24, 47.
  8. Wahl, David. (2014). "Synoptic Lists of World Genera and Family-group Names".

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