Cryptoxilos thorpei
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| Cryptoxilos thorpei | |
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| Female specimen of Cryptoxilos thorpei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Braconidae |
| Genus: | Cryptoxilos |
| Species: | C. thorpei |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryptoxilos thorpei Shaw & Berry, 2005 | |
Cryptoxilos thorpei is a species of parasitoid wasp belonging to the family Braconidae.[2] The species was first described by Scott R. Shaw and Jocelyn A. Berry in 2005, and is endemic to New Zealand.
The species was identified by Scott R. Shaw and Jocelyn A. Berry in 2005, based on a holotype collected by Stephen E. Thorpe from the Symonds Street Cemetery in central Auckland, New Zealand in 2003.[3] The holotype was discovered on a dead species of Pittosporum infested by adult Chaetoptelius mundulus beetles.[3] Shaw and Berry named the species after Thorpe.[3]
Description
Females of the species have a body length of 2.1 mm (0.083 in), and a forewing length of 1.7 mm (0.067 in).[3] The species has wider eyes compared to C. convergens, and due to the propodeum of C. thorpei being covered with lacunose foveae.[3]