Anisocyrta Foerster in Palearctic Region
Creators: name: Yao, Junli
name: Kula, Robert R.
name: Chen, Jiahua
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Braconidae
Anisocyrta

description: Key to species of genus Anisocyrta Foerster in Palearctic Region
1. Second submarginal cell of fore wing large (van Achterberg 1986: Figs 4, 14); 3RSb of fore wing 1.30–2.20 × longer than vein 3RSa (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 4); antennae 24–38 flagellomeres; palpi pale yellowish and less robust (van Achterberg 1986: Figs 20, 23, 25); hind femur dorsally and at least apical half of hind coxa yellowish................................. 2
- Second submarginal cell of fore wing small (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 27); 3RSb of fore wing about 3.00 × longer than vein 3SRa (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 27); antennae 23–25 flagellomeres; palpi dark brown and robust (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 29); hind femur dorsally and hind coxa completely yellowish brown, femur partly dark brown................................................................................................ Anisocyrta microchora van Achterberg
2. 3RSb 2.20 × longer than 3RSa (Fig. 1); 2CUb departs from the anterior fourth to middle of 1 st subdiscal cell............ 3
- 3RSb 1.30–1.90 × longer than 3RSa (Fig. 11); 2CUb departs from the middle of 1 st subdiscal cell (Fig. 11).............. 4
3. 2CUb departs from anterior fourth of 1 st subdiscal cell, almost interstitial; mandible dark brown; precoxal sulcus wide and very shallow; anterior third of frons and face entirely finely and densely granulate, with sparse short rugae; ovipositor short, ovipositor sheath 0.80–1.00 × longer than metasoma, 0.35–0.40 × length of fore wing (Belokobylskij & Tobias 1997: Figs 9– 15)..................................................................... Anisocyrta shelichovi Belokobylskij
- 2CUb departs from middle of 1 st subdiscal cell (Fig. 11); mandible mostly reddish brown (Fig. 12); precoxal sulcus narrow and deep, smooth (Fig. 15); frons amooth (Fig. 14) and face smooth except some transvers ridges near clypeus (Fig. 13); ovipositor long, ovipositor sheath longer than metasoma, 0.50–0.60 × length of fore wing (Fig. 17)................................................................................................. Anisocyrta xiaoliyaoae Yao, sp. n.
4. Propodeum extensively rugose medially (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 18); ventral half of pronotum largely rugose.......... 5
- Propodeum largely smooth, at most with some rugae (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 11); ventral half of pronotum largely smooth (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 1)............................................................................ 6
5. Propodeum without areola; F1 1.80–2.20 × longer than F2; inner side of apex of hind tibia with dense and whitish setae (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 24).................................................. Anisocyrta alpinicola van Achterberg
- Basal half of propodeum with small areola medially, connected with pair of large rugose areolae apically, ridges of areola protruding strongly (Fig. 8); F1 1.40 × longer than F2; inner side of apex of hind tibia with sparse and yellow setae (Fig. 10).......................................................................... Anisocyrta cvanachterbergi Yao, sp. n.
6. Ovipositor sheath 1.70–2.70 mm, 1.40–1.60 × longer than hind tibia, 0.50–0.70 × length of fore wing; antenna 26–31 flagellomeres; fore wing 2.90–3.80 mm; inner apex of hind tibia with sparse and yellowish or brownish setae (Belokobylskij 1998: fig. 107, 8–19).............................................................. Anisocyrta perdita Haliday
- Ovipositor sheath 2.80–3.20 mm, 1.80–2.30 × longer than hind tibia, 0.70–0.80 × length of fore wing; antenna 30–37 flagellomeres; fore wing 3.60–4.60 mm; inner apex of hind tibia with dense and whitish setae (Tobias 1962: Figs 14–15)........................................................ Anisocyrta longicauda Tobias (= A. nearctica Belokobylskij)
description: Published as part of Yao, Junli, Kula, Robert R. & Chen, Jiahua, 2018, Two new species of Anisocyrta Foerster (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae) from China, pp. 575-582 in Zootaxa 4459 (3) on page 577, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1458786