Cryptus ambulator Smith 1874
- Dataset
- Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Ichneumonidae
- genus
- Cryptus
- species
- Cryptus ambulator
description
(Figure 4) Taxonomic history. Morley (1914 a) transferred this species from Cryptus Fabricius, 1804 to Acroricnus Ratzeburg, 1852. Current taxonomy. Acroricnus ambulator (Smith, 1874) (Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae: Cryptini).
materials_examined
Type number. Type 3 b. 417. Specimen # NHMUK 010634929 Type status. Holotype. Sex. Female. Type locality. Hyôgo Prefecture, Honshû, Japan. Label data. First label, ‘ Type / CM’ (round label, with red margin; first line printed and second line handwriting); second label, ‘ B. M. TYPE / HYM. / 3 b. 417 ’ (square label; first and second lines printed and third line handwriting); third label, ‘ Japan. / Hiogo’ (square label; first line printed and second line handwriting); fourth label, ‘ Cryptus / ambulator / Type Smith’ (square label; handwriting); fifth label, ‘ Acroricnus / ambulator / Smith 1874 / Morley det. TYPE’ (square label; first to third label and ‘ TYPE’ in fourth label handwriting, and ‘ Morley det. ’ In fourth label printed). Condition. Very good, but left antenna missing flagellomeres after 17 th, fifth tarsomere of right mid leg, fourth and fifth tarsomeres of hind legs lost.
Name
- Homonyms
- Cryptus ambulator Smith 1874