Cryptalyra

Azevedo, C. O. & Tavares, M. T., 2006, A new species of Cryptalyra (Hymenoptera, Megalyridae) from Brazil with a key to species of the genus, Zootaxa 1259, pp. 55-59 : 58

Key to females of Cryptalyra

1. Body light chestnut brown; front weakly coriaceous, with sparse and small piliferous punctures; dorsum of propodeum with wide longitudinal depression ............................ ......................................................................................................... C. depressa sp. nov.

­ Body mostly brown or black; sculpture of front coarser; dorsum of propodeum with at most narrow linear sulcus.............................................................................................. 2

2. Body mostly brown; head punctalate; antennae about 1.8x as long as head .................. ......................................................................................................... C. plaumanni Shaw

­ Body mostly black; head deeply pitted with dense round foveae; antennae about 1.0x as long as head .................................................................................. C. colombia Shaw