Lycorina Holmgren 1859
Creators: name: Ranjith, A. P.
name: Sheikh, Altaf Hussain
name: Priyadarsanan, Dharma Rajan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Lycorina

description: Genus Lycorina Holmgren, 1859
Lycorina Holmgren, 1859: 126.
Type species: Lycorina triangulifera Holmgren, 1859
Amyx Schiødte, 1839: 309. Type species: Amyx flavilabris Schiødte.
Toxophoroides Cresson, 1874: 406. Type species: Lycorina? apicalis Cresson.
Chlorolycorina Cushman, 1920: 7. Type species: Glypta scitula Cushman.
Gonioglyphus Seyrig, 1932: 183. Type species: Lycorina fici Seyrig.
Key to Indomalayan and Palaearctic species of Lycorina Holmgren
1. Medial triangular area of metasomal tergites yellow.......................................................... 2
- Medial triangular area of metasomal tergites black (Figs 2C–E, 4E, 5F, 6F)....................................... 3
2. Ovipositor sheath long, 2.2 × as long as hind tibia; propodeum with distinct submedial longitudinal carinae resulting in a closed area superomedia; second hind tarsomere 3.8 × as long as wide [Indonesia]................ Lycorina longicauda Shimizu
- Ovipositor sheath of moderate length, less than 1.8 × as long as hind tibia; propodeum without submedial longitudinal carinae resulting in an open area superomedia; second hind tarsomere 2.0 × as long as wide [China]...... Lycorina inareolata Wang
3. Second hind tarsomere 3.0–3.6 × as long as wide............................................................ 4
- Second hind tarsomere less than 3.0 × as long as wide........................................................ 5
4. Clypeus with a medial tubercle; second hind tarsomere 3.0 × as long as wide; hind trochanter black [China]........................................................................................ Lycorina clypeatuberculla Wang
- Clypeus without medial tubercle (Figs 1B, 3A); second hind tarsomere 3.6 × as long as wide (Fig. 3B); hind trochanter yellow [India]........................................................................... Lycorina sehgali sp. nov.
5. Hind femur entirely reddish brown; second hind tarsomere 2.0 × as long as wide; ovipositor sheath 1.8 × as long as hind tibia [Japan, China]............................................................. Lycorina ornata Uchida & Momoi
- Hind femur mostly yellow (Figs 4A, 5A, 6A), rarely black apically; second hind tarsomere more than 2.0 × as long as wide; ovipositor sheath less than 1.8 × as long as hind tibia......................................................... 6
6. Metasomal tergite with smooth apical triangular elevation; hind femur apically black; ovipositor sheath 1.2–1.3 × as long as hind tibia [Malaysia]............................................................ Lycorina borneoensis Momoi
- Metasomal tergite with punctate apical triangular elevation (Figs 4E; 5F; 6F); hind femur entirely yellow (Figs 4A, 5A, 6A); ovipositor sheath more than 1.3 × as long as hind tibia........................................................ 7
7. Metasoma completely black (Fig. 6F)..................................................................... 8
- Metasomal tergites with apical transverse yellow band (Figs 4E, 5F)............................................. 9
8. Clypeus more transverse, 2.4 × as wide as medially long (Fig. 6B); face medially black (Fig. 6B); POL 1.1 × as long as OOL (Fig. 6C) [Widespread species].......................................... Lycorina triangulifera Holmgren (Fig. 6)
- Clypeus less transverse, 1.6 × as wide as medially long; face medially yellow; POL 1.5 × as long as OOL [China]..................................................................................... Lycorina flavomaculata Sheng
9. Apical yellow transverse bands of metasomal tergites indistinct (Fig. 4E); clypeus 2.5 × as wide as medially long (Fig. 4B); scutellum mostly black, yellow apically (Fig. 4D); antenna yellow (Fig. 4A)........ Lycorina ruficornis Kasparyan (Fig. 4)
- Apical yellow transverse bands of metasomal tergites distinct, wide (Fig. 5F); clypeus 2.2 × as wide as medially long (Fig. 5B); scutellum mostly yellow (Fig. 5E), black basally; antenna brown (Fig. 5A)....................................... 10
10. Face yellow (Fig. 5B); fore and mid coxa yellow (Figs 5A, B, D); apical half of propodeum yellow (Figs 5D–F) [China, Korea]..................................................................... Lycorina spilonotae Chao (Fig. 5)
- Face black; fore and mid coxa black; propodeum completely black [China]................. Lycorina nigra Sheng & Sun
description: Published as part of Ranjith, A. P., Sheikh, Altaf Hussain & Priyadarsanan, Dharma Rajan, 2022, Discovery of the Darwin wasp subfamily Lycorininae Cushman & Rohwer (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from India with description of a new species from Kashmir, pp. 591-600 in Zootaxa 5165 (4) on pages 592-593, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5165.4.9, http://zenodo.org/record/6854122