Two new species of the genus Cryptopimpla Taschenberg (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Banchinae) with an updated key to African species Author Reynolds, Terry Research and Exhibitions Department, South African Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, P. O. Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa Author van Noort, Simon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6930-9741 Research and Exhibitions Department, South African Museum, Iziko Museums of South Africa, P. O. Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa & Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa svannoort@iziko.org.za text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2023 2023-08-24 96 667 696 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.104038 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.104038 1314-2607-96-667 12C02F38A9F64BCAAEEBA7155829867C 76E28143B8EC5F3EB224482AFEAC9B7E Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863 Cryptopimpla Taschenberg, 1863. Zeitschrift fuer die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 21: 292. Type-species Phytodietus blandus Gravenhorst, 1914. Complete diagnosis. Provided in Reynolds Berry and van Noort (2016) . Summary diagnosis. Afrotropical representatives of the genus can be distinguished by a combination of traits: a flagellum that tapers to a slender apex; a complete occipital carina, that joins the hypostomal carina distant from the base of the mandible; a longer upper mandibular tooth than lower tooth; absence of the epomia; a truncate-shaped fore wing areolet; the hind wing with Cu1 longer than cu-a; presence of a glymma; a strongly anteriorly narrowed first tergite, and an ovipositor that is 0.5-0.7 x as long as the hind tibia ( Reynolds Berry and van Noort 2020 ).