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Capture in Cne Quarré-les-Tombes (France - dépt. Yonne) on 17 VII 2007

Det. JP Balmer
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Biblio (main) :
- Aubert 1968 : Ichneumonides Cryptinae inédites du continent européen in "Bull. Sté Entomol. Mulhouse - p.3"
- Ceballos 1931, in "Himenópteros de España ... Cryptini - p. 116"
- Schmiedeknecht 1902/1904 : in "Opuscula Entomologica" - Fasc. 6-7

On the Net (see with http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org)

[For this Author , Aritranis is in : Cryptus - Hoplocryptus - Spilocryptus]

- Schwarz M. 2005 : Revision und Neubeschreibungen von Cryptinae ... in

http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/LBB_0037_2_1641-1710.pdf - p. 1641/1710

- Szepligeti 1916, in

http://publication.nhmus.hu/pdf/annHNHM ... 14_225.pdf - p. 259

[For this Author , Aritranis (pars) is Gambrus]

- Townes 1969 : "The Genera of Ichneumonidae" - Part 2

[For this Author , Cryptinae = Gelinae]

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* You use the keys that we sent on our Forum, entitled :

... Adaptation for the ♂ & ♀ (of France & Italy) of the subFamilies's Key contained in "The Genera of Ichneumonidae" of H. Townes ... ,
and you find the sub-Family Cryptinae

* You use the keys that we sent on our Forum, for determination of Genus :

viewtopic.php?f=104&t=53990&hilit=+cryptinae

[Given the Forewing's Lg. the key should not be used, but here it is still usable]
[Progress in the key , Couplets :
1 (1 Bulla) -> 13 (A5) -> 19 (dg > gk) -> 25-5 (L goes : base to M) -> 28 (N<1/2) -> 30 (M complete) ->
31 (base of Tergite 1 without triangular Tooth -> 2th recurrent Vein not strongly sinuate)
--> Genus Aritranis (sensu Townes)]

* Determination of sp. :
There are 13 European sp., whose jonica synonym (according to Taxapad) with nigripes
in Schwarz :

confuscator, explorator, nigripes, occisor, sardiniensis have the Lg. (Ovipositor sheat) ≥ Lg. (Tibia 3)

in Aubert :

intellector having a frontal horn

in Ceballos :

nitida (= nitidus) having the Antennae not ringed with white

in Szepligeti :

nigrifemur having the Antennae not ringed with white

in Schmiedeknecht :

director (cf.) [see viewtopic.php?f=104&t=82293] having the malar space short, our capture having the malar space long

longicauda having the Ovipositor > Lg. of Body

sanguinolenta having the Head mainly orange
claviventris ♀, the description of this Author describes correctly our capture, in particular a character which seems specific : the Head is transverse (see dorsal photo)
[However the Author compares the respective Lgs. of Ovipositor & Abdomen, and we do not know if the Lg. of Tergite 1 is included in the Lg. of Abdomen]

Of where the determination
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claviventris was not captured in France nor in Italy