Superfamily ICHNEUMONOIDEA 461 



Revision: van Rossem, 1971. Tijdschr. v. Ent. 114: 201-208 (European spp.). 



Taxonomy: van Rossem, 1969. Tijdschr. v. Ent. 112: 167, 169 (fig. and key to distinguish from 

 Meringopus). — Townes, 1970 (1969). Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 12: 192-193 (referred 

 additional spp. to genus). —Townes, 1971. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 17: 239 (syn. corrected). 

 crassifemur (Pratt). Idaho, s. B. C, Wash., Oreg., Calif. 



Cryptus craKnifoimr Pratt, 1945. Amer. Midland Nat. 34: 582. 6, 9. 



dorsicarinata (Pratt). Alta. s. to Colo, and Ariz., w. to Alaska and Calif. 



Cryptus dorsicari)iatus Pratt, 1945. Amer. Midland Nat. 34: 612. 6, 9. 

 laborator (Thunberg). Greenland; Newfoundland (Labrador) w. to Alaska, s. to N. Y., Wis., S. 



Dak., N. Mex., and Calif.; n. Eurasia. Host: Melanolopliia imitata (Wlk.). The description 



of laborator given by van Rossem (1971) shows that Cryptus altonii Dalla Torre should 



be suppressed as a synonym rather than being recognized as a subspecies of laborator 



on the basis of the distinguishing characters used in the tribal revision of Townes and 



Townes (1962). 

 Ichneumon laborator Thunberg, 1822; 1824. Acad. Imp. des Sci. St. Petersburg, Mem. 8: 



273 (key); 9: 344. [male]. 

 Cryptus fabricii Schiodte, 1857. In Rink, Gronland Geog. og Statis. Beskrevet, v. 2, pt. 3, p. 



62. c^, 9. Placed as a synonym by van Rossem (1971). 

 Cryptus proxi)Nus Cresson, 1864. Ent. Soc. Phila., Proc. 3: 290. 9. Preocc. by Fonscolombe, 



1850. N. syn. 

 Cryptus fuli'ipes Magretti, 1884. Soc. Ent. Ital., Bol. 16: 99. 6. 

 Cryptus Altonii Dalla Torre, 1902. Cat. Hym., v. 3, p. 560. N. name for C. proxintus 



Cresson. 

 Cryptus/ saclialinensis Matsumura, 1911. Tohoku Imp. Univ., Col. Agr., Jour. 4 (1): 95. 9. 

 Cryptus tarsoleums var. takagii Uchida, 1930. Hokkaido Imp. Univ., Faculty Agr., Jour. 



25: 306. J. 

 Tracliysphyrus laborator satoi Townes, 1962. In Townes and Townes, U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 



216 (pt. 3): 209. 9. N. syn. Described from a single specimen from Korea. 



Taxonomy: Townes, Momoi, and Townes, 1965. Amer. Ent. Inst., Mem. 5: 180-181 (syn.). 

 lochmaia (Townes). Ariz. Ecology: Occurs in chaparral areas. 



Tracliysphyrus lochiiiaius Townes, 1962. In Townes and Townes, U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 216 

 (pt. 3):216. 6,9. 

 perplexa (Cresson), revised status. Idaho, w. Nev., s. B. C, Wash., Oreg., Calif. Townes and 

 Townes (1962) treated perplexa as a subspecies of laborator. In one paragraph they 

 stated that "intergrades between [perplexa] ... and altonii [now a syn. of laborator] are 

 moderately common where the ranges of the two are adjacent or overlap." In a 

 subsequent paragraph they stated that perplexa "intergrades with the subspecies 

 altonii rather freely in western Idaho and near the crest of the Sierra Nevada." The 

 kinds of localities from which they record both taxa lead me to believe that the 

 specimens they regarded as intergrades actually were not. 

 Cryptus proxinius var.? perplexus Cresson, 1879 (1878). Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 30: 

 359. 9. 



Taxonomy: Townes and Townes, 1962. U. S. Natl. Mus. Bui. 216 (pt. 3): 213-214. 

 strigosa (Pratt). Wash., Oreg., Calif. 



Cryptus strigosHS Pratt, 1945. Amer. Midland Nat. 34: 583. 6,9. 



Genus CRYPTUS Fabricius 



Cryptus Fabricius, 1804. Systema Piezatorum, p. 70. Preocc. by Jurine, 1801 and Panzer, 

 1804. 



Type-species: Cryptus viciuatorius Fabricius. Desig. by Curtis, 1837. 



Eucryptus Haldeman, 1842. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Proc. 1: 191. N. name for Cryptus 

 "(Hal.)," presumably Haliday. Haliday (1839) used the name Cryptus for Ichneumonidae 

 in a paper describing insects whose names had been published as nomina nnda by 

 Curtis (1837), who used the abbreviation "Hal." for Haliday and suppressed "Cryptus B. 

 E." as a synonym of the sawfly name Scizocerus and used Cryptus "F[abricius]" for 

 Ichneumonidae. 



