Subfamily Cryptinae

Phylum Arthropoda - Arthropods
Class Insecta - Insects
Order Hymenoptera - Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies
No Taxon parasitic Apocrita
Superfamily Ichneumonoidea - Braconids and Ichneumons
Family Ichneumonidae - Ichneumon Wasps
Subfamily Cryptinae
Largest subfamily of Ichneumonidae. Nearly 400 genera in 4 tribes, 3 tribes with 765 spp. in north of Mexico

Narrow convex clypeus, visible sternaulus, depressed abdomen with the first segment slender basally becoming widened apically, and ovipositor about half the length of the abdomen.
Mostly external parasites of pupae and cocoons;