Review of Afrotropical Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), with description of nine new species

Abstract

The Afrotropical banchine fauna (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) comprises 12 genera. One of these, Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863, is a predominately northern hemisphere genus represented by 47 described species of which only one is known from the Afrotropical region. We describe nine new species of this rare Afrotropical genus: Cryptopimpla elongatus sp. n., Cryptopimpla fernkloofensis sp. n., Cryptopimpla goci sp. n., Cryptopimpla hantami sp. n., Cryptopimpla kogelbergensis sp. n., Cryptopimpla neili sp. n., Cryptopimpla onyxi sp. n., Cryptopimpla parslactis sp. n., and Cryptopimpla zwarti sp. n. All the Afrotropical species are only known from South Africa. Online interactive Lucid keys to the nine Cryptopimpla species are available at: http://www.waspweb.org.

Supplementary material 1 from: Berry TR, van Noort S (2020) Revision of the endemic Afrotropical genus Tetractenion (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with an identification key to genera of Banchinae for the region. ZooKeys 1007: 49-84. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1007.55543

“…The group is usually well represented in all faunas and amongst the most commonly collected of all ichneumonids (Gauld et al 2002;Broad et al 2011). There are roughly 1800 described species and 66 genera of Banchinae currently recognized (Khalaim and Ruíz-Cancino 2012;Maeto 2012, 2014;Broad 2014;Choi et al 2015;Reynolds Berry and van Noort 2016;Herrera-Florez 2017;Vas 2017;Watanabe 2017Watanabe , 2018Watanabe , 2020Kasparyan and Kulitzky 2018;Li et al 2018;Sheng et al 2018;Watanabe and Sheng 2018;Kang et al 2019Kang et al , 2020Yu et al 2020). With the banchine fauna poorly known for many areas of the world, and a number of undescribed genera and species from tropical regions preserved in museum collections, the number of species is certainly far greater (Broad et al 2011).…”

Cryptopimpla (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) of South Korea, with description of two new species

“…Cryptopimpla Taschenberg is a moderately large genus with a worldwide distribution, containing 57 species (Reynolds Berry and van Noort 2016; Yu et al 2016). Among these, 15 species are from the Eastern Palearctic region.…”