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Porter — Cosmiocryptus 
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Porter. Collection of Charles C. Porter, 301 North 39th Street, 
McAllen, TX 78501. 
Townes. American Entomological Institute, c/o Dr. Virendra 
Gupta, Bureau of Entomology, Division of Plant Industry, 
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 
P.O. Box 1269, Gainesville, FL 32602. 
Washington. Department of Entomology, U.S. National Mu- 
seum, NHB 168, Washington, DC 20560 
Genus COSMIOCRYPTUS 
Cosmiocryptus Cameron, 1902. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. 28: 371. Type: Cosmiocryp- 
tus violaceipennis Cameron 
Neocryptopteryx Blanchard, 1947. Commun. Zool. Mus. Hist. Nat. Montevideo 
2(42): 1. Type: Neocryptopteryx orientalis Blanchard. New synonym. 
Key to the Coastal Desert Cosmiocryptus 
FEMALES 
1. Gaster solid red or red with black staining; flagellum black with a 
white band; clypeus low to moderately raised, symmetrically 
to asymmetrically convex in profile 2 
1'. Gaster variously patterned with red, black, and white; flagellum 
not black and white; clypeus strongly raised, bluntly and 
asymmetrically pyramidal in profile 7 
2. Epomia turned mesad above and enclosing a triangular area; 
mesoscutum shining and with much gross punctation and 
wrinkling along notauli and on peripheries of lateral lobes 
but duller and more finely punctured centrad on lobes; 
propodeal cristae very strongly projecting cuneate to ligulate; 
ventro-lateral carina absent on 1st gastric tergite; sheathed 
portion of ovipositor 0.8-0. 9 as long as fore wing, gently 
upcurved 2. C. huascar (Porter) 
2'. Epomia not turned mesad at its upper end; mesoscutum uni- 
formly more or less shining, without or with rather weak 
wrinkling along notauli and not more strongly sculptured on 
peripheries of lateral lobes; propodeal cristae more or less 
strong, moderately projecting, subligulate or subcuneate; 
ventro-lateral carina distinct throughout on petiole; sheathed 
portion of ovipositor 0.4-0. 6 as long as fore wing, straight 
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