Five new species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) with a key to species known from China

Abstract

Eight species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863 are reported from China, five of them new to science: C. flavipedalis Sheng, sp. n., collected from Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and C. rufipedalis Sheng, sp. n. collected from Jilin Province, both from the Palaearctic part of China. Cryptopimpla carinifacialis Sheng, sp. n., C. flavifacialis Sheng, sp. n. and C. maculifacialis Sheng, sp. n. were collected from Jiangxi Province in the Oriental part of China. A key to the species of Cryptopimpla known from China is provided.