Crytea erythraea (Gravenhorst, 1820)

Verheyde, Fons, De Ketelaere, Augustijn, Ørsnes, Geir, Pénigot, William, Storey, Malcolm, Österblad, Ika, Cameron, Al, Engan, Gunnar, Fiala, Miroslav, Lutz, Jonas, Parkhomenko, Maksym, Gokhman, Vladimir E, Dekoninck, Wouter, Cooleman, Stijn & Mees, Jan, 2025, First comprehensive catalogue of hibernating Darwin wasps in the Western Palaearctic (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 176441-e 176441 : e176441-

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e176441
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18083017
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scientific name	Crytea erythraea (Gravenhorst, 1820)
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Notes

This species has become very common over the last decade in Belgium and to a lesser extent in the Netherlands. It most probably followed its most used host, the lepidopteran Pechipogo plumigeralis Hübner ( Erebidae ), which is associated with ivy. Systematic field research on several localities in Belgium seems to demonstrate how only some adults within a population hibernate in the evergreen ivies. Additionally, there are also observations of adults in grass tussocks and litter.

Status: Confirmed.

Records: Belgium (10) *, France (2), the Netherlands (3) *.

First record: France, ca. 1895 ( Berthoumieu 1895 a).

Hibernacula: DV (1), LV (14), U (1).

Sources: Berthoumieu (1895 a) [ Ichneumon erythraeus Grav. ]; Unpublished: Insecte. org, Observation. org.

Also mentioned in: Morley (1903) [ Melanichneumon erythraeus Grav. ].