title: Review of AfrotropicalCryptopimplaTaschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae), with description of nine new species.
abstract: The Afrotropical banchine fauna (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) comprises 12 genera. One of these,CryptopimplaTaschenberg, 1863, is a predominately northern hemisphere genus represented by 47 described species of which only one is known from the Afrotropical region. We describe nine new species of this rare Afrotropical genus:Cryptopimpla elongatussp. n.,Cryptopimpla fernkloofensissp. n.,Cryptopimpla gocisp. n.,Cryptopimpla hantamisp. n.,Cryptopimpla kogelbergensissp. n.,Cryptopimpla neilisp. n.,Cryptopimpla onyxisp. n.,Cryptopimpla parslactissp. n., andCryptopimpla zwartisp. n.All the Afrotropical species are only known from South Africa. Online interactive Lucid keys to the nineCryptopimplaspecies are available at: http://www.waspweb.org.
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural History, Iziko Museums of South Africa, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa; Stellenbosch University, Department of Botany and Zoology, Evolutionary Genomics Group, Private Bag X1, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa.
authors.forename: Terry Reynolds
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Berry
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural History, Iziko Museums of South Africa, PO Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: van Noort
keywords: Afrotropical region; Atrophini; Hymenoptera; Ichneumonoidea; Lucid identification keys; South Africa; goci species-group; rubrithorax species-group; systematics; taxonomy