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Cryptus ambulator Smith 1874

Creators

  • 1. Laboratory of Insect Biodiversity and Ecosystem Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kôbe University, Kôbe, Hyôgo, Japan; Research Fellow (DC 1 and Overseas Challenge Program for Young Researchers), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tôkyô, Japan; Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK

Description

Cryptus ambulator Smith, 1874

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Taxonomic history. Morley (1914a) transferred this species from Cryptus Fabricius, 1804 to Acroricnus Ratzeburg, 1852.

Current taxonomy. Acroricnus ambulator (Smith, 1874) (Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae: Cryptini).

Type number. Type 3b.417. Specimen # NHMUK010634929

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./3b.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 17th, fifth tarsomere of right mid leg, fourth and fifth tarsomeres of hind legs lost.

Notes

Published as part of Shimizu, So & Broad, Gavin R., 2020, Photographic catalogue of the oldest primary types of Japanese Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera), those described by Frederick Smith and Francis Walker in 1874, pp. 1115-1198 in Journal of Natural History 54 (17) on pages 1121-1123, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1776905, http://zenodo.org/record/4116141

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E7687E8A56AFFD1AEFC400FFCCD1AB9

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.4116149 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1776905 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4116141 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/C24FFF90A56DFFD8AF33461CFF9D187C (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/22F74559-4F79-47B2-81DB-34C6C3B5729F (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/3E7687E8A56AFFD1AEFC400FFCCD1AB9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/168507426 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/9719/taxon/3E7687E8A56AFFD1AEFC400FFCCD1AB9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Family
Ichneumonidae
Genus
Cryptus
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
NHMUK010634929
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Smith
Species
ambulator
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Cryptus ambulator Smith, 1874 sec. Shimizu & Broad, 2020

References

  • Smith F. 1874. Description of new species of Tenthredinidae, Ichneumonidae, Chrysididae, Formicidae etc. of Japan. Trans Entomol Soc London. 1874: 373 - 409.
  • Morley C. 1914 a. A monograph of the genus Acroricnus, Ratzeburg. Entomologist. 47: 170 - 173.
  • Fabricius JC. 1804. Systema Piezatorum: secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunsvigae: Carolum Reichard; 439 + 32 pp.
  • Ratzeburg JTC. 1852. Die Ichneumonen der Forstinsecten in forstlicher und entomologischer Beziehung. Berlin: Dritter Band; 272 pp.