Anisocyrta Foerster 1863

• Main Authors: Yao, Junli, Kula, Robert R., Chen, Jiahua
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Braconidae; Anisocyrta; Canada; Giganteus; Yakovlev; Wharton; karelia*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5951349; https://zenodo.org/record/5951349

Anisocyrta Foerster, 1863: 268. Type species: Alysia perdita Haliday, 1838: 241 (mOnObasic). Diagnosis. Head sub-cubical to transverse (Figs 5, 14); antenna medium-sized to long, with 24–40 flagellomeres (Figs 1, 11); F1 1.40–2.20 × longer than F2; mandible large, setiferous, with fourth lamelliform protuberance ventrally (Figs 3, 4, 12), the protuberance may be divided into two small teeth, e.g., A . alpinicola (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 16), and third tooth distinctly developed, diagonal ridge weak; clypeus moderately large, somewhat protruding; anterior tentorial pits medium-sized (Fig. 3); maxillary and labial palp with 6 and 4 palpomeres, respectively; pronope absent, pronotum only with transverse groove; precoxal sulcus absent (Fig. 7) or present only as smooth groove (Fig. 15); scutellum low, rounded, never with posterior spine; metanotum with tall medial carina which may be protruding (Figs 7, 16); propodeal spiracle small; propodeum with complete mid-longitudinal carina (Figs 8, 18), antero-dorsal part of propodeum not differentiated from postero-dorsal part except by curve midlongitudinal carina (Figs 9, 16); fore wing venation complete; pterostigma linear or nearly so, its length about 10.00 × its width (Figs 1, 11); vein r of fore wing arising from base of pterostigma (Figs 1, 11) except in A . curticubita and Anisocyrta masoni Wharton (van Achterberg 1986: Figs 19, 31); vein 3RSa of fore wing longer than vein 2RS; vein 1m-cu of fore wing interstitial (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 4) to postfurcal (Figs 1, 11); first subdiscal cell of fore wing closed; vein 2cu-a of fore wing subequal to 2CUa or slightly longer (Figs 1, 11); vein cu-a of hind wing present; vein 1M of hind wing shorter than or equal to vein M+CU (Figs 1, 11); dorsope present; laterope absent (Figs 8, 19); T2 smooth; ovipositor sheath setiferous and with apical spine (van Achterberg 1986: fig. 1); length of ovipositor sheath 1.40–4.00 × length of hind tibia, usually 0.50–0.80 × fore wing (except A. masoni ). Distribution. Nearctic, Palearctic, and Oriental regions (Yu et al . 2016). Biology. Anisocyrta perdita : reared with Pegomya scapularis and Pegomya circumpolaris ex Leccinum scabrum (Yakovlev & Tobias 1992); collected from Leucopaxillus giganteus (Koponen 2000). : 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 pages 576-577, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/1458786 : {"references": ["FOerster, A. (1863) SynOpsis der Familien und Gattungen der BracOniden. Ferhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Fereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 19, 225 - 288.", "Haliday, A. H. (1838) Essay On parasitic HymenOptera. Entomological Magazine, 5 (3), 209 - 249.", "van Achterberg, C. (1986) The HOlarctic genus AnisOcyrta FOerster (HymenOptera: BracOnidae: Alysiinae). Zoologische Mededelingen, 60 (20), 285 - 297.", "Yu, D. S., Achterberg, C. van & HOrstmann, K. (2016) Taxapad 2016, IchneumOnOidea 2015. Database On flash-drive. Nepean, OntariO, Canada. Available frOm: http: // www. taxapad. cOm (accessed 15 May 2017)", "YakOvlev, E. B. & TObias, V. I. (1992) BracOnidae (HymenOptera) parasites Of fungivOrOus Diptera in Karelia. Entomologica Fennica, 3 (3), 139 - 148.", "KOpOnen, M. (2000) Five alysiine species new tO Finland (HymenOptera: BracOnidae: Alysiinae). Entomologica Fennica, 11, 239 - 243."]}