Atanycolus Foerster 1863
Creators: name: Cao, Liang-Ming
name: Xie, Ji-Yu
name: Wang, Xin-Geng
name: Wang, Xiao-Yi
name: Poland, Therese M.
name: Petrice, Toby R.
name: Yang, Zhong-Qi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Atanycolus

description: Genus Atanycolus Foerster, 1863
Atanycolus Foerster, 1863: 238 (name published in key, type species); Dalla Torre, 1898: 295 (catalogue); Ashmead, 1900: 138 (in key); Szépligeti, 1904: 18 (catalogue, distribution); Roman, 1910: 112 (diagnosis); Viereck, 1914: 16 (type species); Fahringer, 1926: 116 (diagnosis, key to species); Telenga, 1936: 26 (in key); Watanabe, 1937:13 (key to species of Japan, hosts); Shenefelt, 1943: 51 (history, key to species of North America); Granger, 1949: 18 (in key); Papp, 1960: 368, 377 (in key, key to species); Baltazar, 1962: 768 (in key); Mason, 1978: 722 (in key); Shenefelt, 1978: 1437 (catalogue, hosts); Marsh, 1979: 159 (catalogue of North America and Mexico); Marsh et al., 1987: 41 (in key); Quicke & Sharkey, 1989: 339, 345 (in key, notes, hosts); Wang et al., 2009: 32 (key to species of China); Li et al., 2020: 5 (key to species of China, diagnosis).
Type species. Ichneumon denigrator Linnaeus, 1758.
Coelobracon Thomson, 1892: 1787 (name published in key (manipulus), type species assigned); Dalla Torre, 1898: 295 (synonymized). Type species: Ichneumon denigrator Linnaeus, 1758.
Melanobracon Ashmead, 1900: 138 (new genus described in key, type species assigned); Szépligeti, 1904: 18 (synonymized). Type species: Bracon simplex Cresson, 1872.
Atanycolidea Viereck, 1912: 617 (new genus, type species assigned); Shenefelt, 1943: 56 (synonymized). Type species: Bracon rugosiventris Ashmead, 1889.
Diagnosis. Recognized within Atanycolus by the following combination of characters. Body medium–large sized. Scape highly modified and subcylindrical, base ventrally chamfer-shaped, apex ventrally expanded forward, bilaterally concave. Vein 1-SR+M of fore wing more or less straight, sometimes curved weakly. A single thickened basal bristle located at 1/5 of basal hind wing. First metasomal tergite divided into three parts, usually with different colors, the median part somewhat dark colored, second metasomal tergite with three smooth areas medio-basally and bilateral-basally. Ovipositor sheath longer or equal to body length. Hosts are woodborers of Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, and Curculionidae.
Key to Oriental and Palaearctic species similar to A. yangi sp. nov. in the genus Atanycolus
1 Female mesosoma totally black, male mesosoma black....................................................... 2
- Female mesosoma totally yellow to orange, male mesosoma most (Fig. 22) or totally black (see Ahmed et al. 2022: Fig. 1b) 6
2 Head red, only ocelli black (see Telenga 1936: key, redescription).......................... A. fulviceps (Kriechbaumer)
- Head totally black, or yellow to red with frons or ocellar large field black......................................... 3
3 Head black, except for eye orbits yellowish red........................................... A. denigrator (Linnaeus)
- Head yellow to red, sometimes with stemmaticum and frons black widely or narrowly.............................. 4
4 Metasoma usually totally yellow, sometimes first metasomal tergite brown (see Li et al. 2020: Fig. 8e).................................................................................................... A. initiator (Fabricius)
- Metasoma with first tergite black (see Li et al. 2020: Figs 12j, 18j); Triangular medio-basal area and antero-lateral areas of second tergite brown, other tergites yellow................................................................. 5
5 Head with stemmaticum and frons black, black area not extending backwards; temples weakly expanded behind eyes (see Li et al. 2020: key)..................................................................... A. setosus Li, He & Chen
- Head dorsally with a moderately large black and reverse guttiform spot around stemmaticum; temples strongly expanded behind eyes (see Li et al. 2020: key)....................................................... A. lindemani Tobias
6 Female body length 13 mm, epipleuron of first metasomal tergite and sternum yellow, second metasomal tergite totally orange (see Ahmed et al. 2022: Figs 2g, 2h)......................................... A. tangmargensis Ahmed, I. & Kazmi
- Female body length 7.5–10 mm, epipleuron of first metasomal tergite and sternum white, second metasomal tergite with marginal parts and sternum white, triangular medio-basal area and antero-lateral areas of second tergite black (Figs 17, 24).......................................................................... A. yangi Cao, Xie et Wang, sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Cao, Liang-Ming, Xie, Ji-Yu, Wang, Xin-Geng, Wang, Xiao-Yi, Poland, Therese M., Petrice, Toby R. & Yang, Zhong-Qi, 2024, Description of a new species of the genus Atanycolus Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitizing Lamprodila nobilissima bellula (Lewis) (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) in China, pp. 248-260 in Zootaxa 5448 (2) on pages 250-259, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/11231570