Atanycolus Foerster 1862
Creators: name: Wang, Yi-Ping
name: Shi, Min
name: Chen, Xue-xin
name: He, Jun-Hua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Atanycolus

description: Key to species of genus <i>Atanycolus</i> Foerster in China 1. Second metasomal suture (= groove between second and third metasomal tergites) wide and strongly crenulate; third tergite with strongly raised area antero-laterally........................................................................................... <b>2</b> – Second metasomal suture narrow and weakly crenulate medially, and at least laterally smooth; third tergite with weakly raised area antero-laterally........ <b>5</b> 2. Head entirely blackish; longitudinal grooves of second metasomal tergite shallow laterally; first metasomal tergite blackish brown................................................................................................. <b> <i>A. denigrator</i> (Linnaeus, 1758)</b> – Head dark yellow or yellowish red; longitudinal grooves of second metasomal tergite deep laterally; first metasomal tergite black or yellow....................... <b>3</b> 3. Triangular area of third and fourth metasomal tergites (except for medio-basally) uniformly sculptured; metasoma pale yellow and head blackish brown............................................................... <b> <i>A. sculpturatus</i> (Thomson, 1892)</b> – Third and fourth tergites smooth without any sculpture; metasoma yellowish brown or blackish brown and head reddish yellow..................................... <b>4</b> 4. Length of body more than 10 mm; ocellar triangular area with blackish spot (Fig. 2); wing membrane infuscated (Fig. 5); third metasomal tergite with strongly raised area antero-laterally (Fig. 7, 8)............... <b> <i>A</i>. <i>grandis</i> Wang &amp; Chen, sp. n.</b> – Length of body less than 10 mm; ocellar triangular area reddish yellow; wing membrane yellowish brown; third tergite with weakly raised area antero-laterally............................................................... <b> <i>A</i>. <i>crenulatus</i> Telenga, 1936</b> 5. Second metasomal tergite with parallel longitudinal impressed grooves laterally, medio-basal smooth triangular area deeply impressed; suture between second and third tergites crenulate medially and smooth laterally; tergites three to six orangish yellow........................... <b> <i>A</i>. <i>initiator</i> (Fabricius), 1793</b> <b>–</b> Second tergite without parallel longitudinal impressed grooves laterally, medio-basal smooth triangular area without a deep impression; suture between second and third tergites completely smooth; tergites three to six yellowishwhite.................................................................. <b> <i>A. lindemani</i> Tobias, 1980</b>
description: Published as part of <i>Wang, Yi-Ping, Shi, Min, Chen, Xue-xin &amp; He, Jun-Hua, 2009, The genus Atanycolus Foerster (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) in China, with description of one new species, pp. 31-41 in ZooKeys 27 (27)</i> on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.27.251, http://zenodo.org/record/576565
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