The first comprehensive phylogenetic study of the wasp tribe Cryptini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae) is presented, based on 109 morphological characters and molecular data from seven loci The dataset includes 370 species, 308 of which are from Cryptini, covering 182 of its 250 genera Results from parsimony and likelihood analyses are generally congruent The topology has several implications for ichneumonid higher-level classification Previous definitions of the Ichneumoniformes clade are supported, though newly including the Microleptinae The cryptine subtribe Ateleutina is consistently recovered outside of the Cryptini clade and should be treated as a separate subfamily, Ateleutinae statn The tribe Phygadeuontini is shown to be polyphyletic: while most of the sampled taxa were recovered in a single clade, many of its members are more closely related to the Ichneumoninae, Ateleutinae or Cryptini Pending a more detailed study, the group should be treated as a separate subfamily, Phygadeuontinae stat rev The former Hemigastrini are recovered as largely monophyletic but with important exceptions Hemigaster Brulle is recovered as part of the Phygadeuontini and is transferred to that group Echthrus Gravenhorst is consistently recovered as part of Cryptini, rendering Aptesini as the correct name for the tribe The subfamily Cryptinae should be restricted to the tribes Aptesini and Cryptini Within Cryptini, the results show little support for the current subtribal classification, with most subtribes recovered as polyphyletic A number of relatively stable clades are identified and discussed, but the relationships among them are weakly supported Most of these clades are morphologically heterogeneous and building a subtribal classification based on them would be ineffectual; they are therefore treated under the informal designation of genus groups The results highlight the ubiquity of morphological homoplasy in Cryptini, and provide a framework from which to address further systematic and evolutionary questions on this hyperdiverse group of parasitic wasps

Phylogeny and reclassification of Cryptini (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptinae), with implications for ichneumonid higher-level classification

This study is based upon material of the family Ichneumonidae collected from Erzurum and Tunceli provinces of Turkey between 2011 and 2012. 64 species in 49 genera of the family Ichneumonidae were recorded. Among them, Alloplasta tomentosa (Gravenhorst, 1829), Lissonota (Lissonota) accusator (Fabricius, 1793), Dusona nidulator (Fabricius, 1804), Olesicampe fulviventris (Gmelin, 1790), Olesicampe proterva (Brischke, 1880), Olesicampe radiella (Thomson, 1885), Aptesis nigrocincta (Gravenhorst, 1815), Cryptus moschator (Fabricius, 1787), Pleolophus brachypterus (Gravenhorst, 1815), Hadrodactylus flavofacialis Horstmann, 2000, Lagarotis semicaligata (Gravenhorst, 1820), Coelichneumon (Coelichneumon) consimilis (Wesmael, 1845), Hoplismenus axillatorius (Thunberg, 1822) and Eridolius pictus (Gravenhorst, 1829) are new to the Turkish fauna. A short zoogeographic characterisation is given for each species.

Contribution to the knowledge of the Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) fauna of Turkey

We present a first account of the species of the subfamily Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) found in Turkey and give distributional records for 5 genera and 23 species. Among them, 3 genera (Cidaphus Forster, 1869; Mesochorella Szepligeti, 1911; Stictopisthus Thomson, 1886) and 20 species are new for the fauna of Turkey.

A contribution to the Mesochorinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) of Turkey

Taxonomy of parasitoid wasps in China: an overview.

Los ichneumonidos integran la familia con mayor diversidad de especies en el orden Hymenoptera y una de las mas diversas en la clase Insecta. Para Mexico se registran 1 291 especies (5.3% del total mundial) de 300 generos y 28 subfamilias, con 43 generos por identificar sus especies, para un total de 343 generos. Se estiman entre 3 215 y 4 544 especies para el pais, considerando la necesidad de mas estudios en las regiones norte, centro, occidente y sureste. El 59% (760) de las especies son neotropicales, el 29% (371) son neotropicales y nearticas, el 10% (127) son nearticas y el 2% restante (33) tiene otra distribucion. De momento, 45% (580) de las especies se consideran endemicas, situacion que se debe a la descripcion reciente de muchas especies nuevas y a la falta de mas estudios en Centroamerica (excepto Costa Rica).

http://www.revista.ib.unam.mx/index.php/bio/article/download/1062/960

C. van Achterberg

Papers

World Ichneumonoidea 2011. Taxapad 2012. Database on flash-drive