Ichneumon Banchiformis Megerle, 1802:16, Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602.:427, Type ♂, lost; Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2006Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2006. Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini). Zoosystematica Rossica 15 (1):87-112.:109, Type ♂, lost; Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2008. Cryptini de México (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) Parte II. Victoría, México. 1-373.:244, Type ♂, perdido. - Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2006Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2006. Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini). Zoosystematica Rossica 15 (1):87-112.:109 (unavailable name [as published in a suppressed work]); Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2008. Cryptini de México (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) Parte II. Victoría, México. 1-373.:243 (unavailable name); Ruiz Cancino et al., 2008Ruiz Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan & M.A. Coronado Blanco 2008. El género Cryptanura (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) en México. In: López Lugo, G. & T. de J. Del Ángel Sánchez (Ed.). Memorias del 19º Encuentro Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica del Golfo de México. 75-80. (distribution).Ichneumon Banchiformis Megerle, 1802:16, Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602.:427, Type ♂, lost; Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2006Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2006. Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini). Zoosystematica Rossica 15 (1):87-112.:109, Type ♂, lost; Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2008. Cryptini de México (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) Parte II. Victoría, México. 1-373.:244, Type ♂, perdido. - Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2006Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2006. Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini). Zoosystematica Rossica 15 (1):87-112.:109 (unavailable name [as published in a suppressed work]); Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2008. Cryptini de México (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) Parte II. Victoría, México. 1-373.:243 (unavailable name); Ruiz Cancino et al., 2008Ruiz Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan & M.A. Coronado Blanco 2008. El género Cryptanura (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) en México. In: López Lugo, G. & T. de J. Del Ángel Sánchez (Ed.). Memorias del 19º Encuentro Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica del Golfo de México. 75-80. (distribution). - As Cryptanura banchiformis: - Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602. (distribution), 427 (comb. nov.); Porter, 1975Porter, C.C. 1975. A new floridian Polycyrtidea with comments on Zoogeography of Florida Mesostenini (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). The Florida Entomologist 58 (4):247-255. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino et al., 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan & J.M. Coronado Blanco 2002. Ichneumonidae. In: Llorente Bousquets, J. & J.J. Morrone (Ed.). Biodiversidad, taxonomía y biogeografía de artrópodos de México: Hacia una síntesis de su conocimiento, volumen III. 631-646. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution).
Mesostenus spinarius Brullé, 1846:227, ♀. Holotype ♀, Caroline (ancienne collection de Bosc); Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602.:427, Type ♀ (Paris). - Cushman, 1929Cushman, R.A. 1929. A revision of the North American Ichneumon-flies of the genus Mesostenus and related genera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 74 (art. 16):1-58.:38 (listed); Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602.:427 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura banchiformis (Megerle, 1802)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198.:469 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura banchiformis (Megerle, 1802)). - As Cryptanura spinaria: - Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2006Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2006. Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini). Zoosystematica Rossica 15 (1):87-112. (distribution); Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2008. Cryptini de México (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) Parte II. Victoría, México. 1-373. (distribution); Ruiz Cancino et al., 2008Ruiz Cancino, E., D.R. Kasparyan & M.A. Coronado Blanco 2008. El género Cryptanura (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) en México. In: López Lugo, G. & T. de J. Del Ángel Sánchez (Ed.). Memorias del 19º Encuentro Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica del Golfo de México. 75-80. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino, 2010Ruíz-Cancino E. 2010. Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) de Tamaulipas, México. Editorial Planea, México. 185 pp. (distribution); González-Moreno & Bordera, 2012González-Moreno, A. & S. Bordera 2012. The Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) of Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatán, Mexico. Zootaxa 3230:1-51. (distribution). - As Polyaenus spinarius: - Cushman, 1929Cushman, R.A. 1929. A revision of the North American Ichneumon-flies of the genus Mesostenus and related genera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 74 (art. 16):1-58. (distribution).
Mesostenus albopictus Cresson, 1864:312, ♂. ♂, Delaware (leg. Dr. Thos. B. Wilson); Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602.:427, Type ♂ (Philadelphia); Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2006Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2006. Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini). Zoosystematica Rossica 15 (1):87-112.:109, Type ♂ (ANSP); Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2008. Cryptini de México (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) Parte II. Victoría, México. 1-373.:244, Type ♂ (Mus. Philadelphia). - Cushman, 1929Cushman, R.A. 1929. A revision of the North American Ichneumon-flies of the genus Mesostenus and related genera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 74 (art. 16):1-58.:38 ( listed as synonym of Polyaenus spinarius (Brullé, 1846)); Cushman, 1945Cushman, R.A. 1945. The Ichneumon-flies of the genus Cryptanura Brullé, mainly tropical American. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 96 (3193):139-176.:161 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura spinaria (Brullé, 1846)); Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602.:427 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura banchiformis (Megerle, 1802)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198.:469 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura banchiformis (Megerle, 1802)); Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2006Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2006. Review of Mexican species of the genus Cryptanura Brullé with a key to species from North America (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini). Zoosystematica Rossica 15 (1):87-112.:109 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura spinaria (Brullé, 1846)); Kasparyan & Ruíz-Cancino, 2008Kasparyan, D.R. & E. Ruíz Cancino 2008. Cryptini de México (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptinae) Parte II. Victoría, México. 1-373.:244 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura spinaria (Brullé, 1846)).
Mesostenus Delawarensis Dalla Torre, 1901:540, no descr. Replacement name for Mesostenus albopictus Cresson, 1864 by Dalla Torre, 1901-1902Dalla Torre, C.G. 1901-1902. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. — Volumen III: Trigonalidae, Megalyridae, Stephanidae, Ichneumonidae, Agriotypidae, Evaniidae, Pelecinidae. Pars II. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. VIII + 1141.:540 (preoccupied by Smith, 1858). - Dalla Torre, 1901-1902Dalla Torre, C.G. 1901-1902. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. — Volumen III: Trigonalidae, Megalyridae, Stephanidae, Ichneumonidae, Agriotypidae, Evaniidae, Pelecinidae. Pars II. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig. VIII + 1141. (distribution); Cushman, 1929Cushman, R.A. 1929. A revision of the North American Ichneumon-flies of the genus Mesostenus and related genera. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 74 (art. 16):1-58.:38 ( listed as synonym of Polyaenus spinarius (Brullé, 1846)); Cushman, 1945Cushman, R.A. 1945. The Ichneumon-flies of the genus Cryptanura Brullé, mainly tropical American. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 96 (3193):139-176.:161 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura spinaria (Brullé, 1846)); Townes & Townes, 1962Townes, H.K. & M. Townes 1962. Ichneumon-flies of America north of Mexico: 3. Subfamily Gelinae, tribe Mesostenini. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 216 (3):1-602.:427 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura banchiformis (Megerle, 1802)); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 1. Symphyta and Apocrita (Parasitica). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1-1198.:469 ( listed as synonym of Cryptanura banchiformis (Megerle, 1802)).