Tanycarpa gracilicornis

• Main Authors: Yao, Junli, Kula, Robert R., Wharton, Robert A., Chen, Jiahua
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Braconidae; Tanycarpa; Tanycarpa gracilicornis; Canada; Wharton; Sakhalin; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6103051; https://zenodo.org/record/6103051

Tanycarpa gracilicornis (Nees von Esenbeck) Bassus gracilicornis Nees von Esenbeck, 1812: 206. Type: lost. Tanycarpa gracilicornis : Foerster 1862: 265, Wharton 1980: 73 (discussion), Tobias and Jakimavicius 1986: 180 (in key to European species), Chen and Wu 1994: 139 (redescription, range extension), Belokobylskij 1998: 208 (in key to species from eastern Russia). Material examined. China, Ningxia: Liupanshan, Wanghuanan, 5 ♀ 7 ♂ 20 –VIII– 2000, Zhihui Lin (1 ♀ 1 ♂ USNM); 1 ♀ 3 ♂ same data as previous except Quanxiu Shi (1 ♂ USNM); 4 ♀ 4 ♂ same data as previous except Qinge Ji (1 ♀ 1 ♂ USNM); 4 ♂ same data as previous except Jianquan Yang (1 USNM); 1 ♀ 1 ♂ Guanghong Liang; 1 ♂ Migangshan, 22 –VIII– 2000, Zhihui Lin; 1 ♀ Jingyuan, 15 –VIII– 2000, Quanxiu Shi; China, Hubei: 1 ♂ Shennongjia, 22 –VIII– 2000, Juchang Huang (all at FAFU except as noted for USNM). Diagnosis. Antenna with 30–40 flagellomeres; frons almost flat, glabrous; mandible 1.40–1.60 × longer than wide; midpit long and narrow; scutellar sulcus deep, wide, with 1 strong longitudinal carina, adjacent to carina rugose or with just a few rugae; notauli distinctly crenulate anteriorly, obliterated posteriorly; midpit long and narrow; mesoscutal lobes with dense setae medially but glabrous laterally; propodeum with distinct longitudinal ridge in basal 1 / 4 – 1 / 5 that splits into two transverse ridges, two longitudinal ridges extend posteriorly from tubercles and form closed glabrous areola; 1 cu-a small, postfurcal; legs yellow except apical 1 / 4 of hind tibia and entire tarsus slightly to strongly infuscate; pterostigma brown; T 1 brown, metasoma except T 1 brownish yellow to brown. Body 3.08–3.60 mm. Distribution. Austria; Belgium; Canada (Alberta and Ontario); China (Fujian, Ningxia, Hubei); Czechoslovakia (former); Finland; Germany; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; North Korea; Poland; Russia (Primor'ye Kray, Sakhalin Oblast, Saint Petersburg); Switzerland; United Kingdom; USA (Alaska). Remarks. Tanycarpa gracilicornis is widespread and is morphologically similar to T . mitis and T. similis based on the filiform apical three antennal flagellomeres and presence of a mesoscutal midpit. However, T . gracilicornis has 30–40 flagellomeres, T . mitis has 24–27 flagellomeres, and T. similis has 25–29 flagellomeres. As for T . mitis and T. similis, they are separated primarily using the median longitudinal ridge of the propodeum and the fore wing 2 nd submarginal cell. Tanycarpa mitis has a longitudinal ridge in the basal 1 / 3, and the 2 nd submarginal cell longer; T . similis lacks a longitudinal ridge, and the 2 nd submarginal cell is shorter. In T. gracilicornis the propodeum has a distinct longitudinal ridge in the basal 1 / 4 – 1 / 5, and the 2 nd submarginal cell is shorter as in T. similis. : Published as part of Yao, Junli, Kula, Robert R., Wharton, Robert A. & Chen, Jiahua, 2015, Four new species of Tanycarpa (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from the Palaearctic Region and new records of species from China, pp. 169-187 in Zootaxa 3957 (2) on pages 175-176, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/244890 : {"references": ["Wharton, R. A. (1980) Review of the Nearctic Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with discussion of generic relationships within the tribe. University of California Publications in Entomology, 88, 1 - 112", "Tobias, V. I. (1986) 22. Subfam. Alysiinae. In: Medvedev, G. S. (Ed.), Opredelitel' Nasekomykh Evropeiskoi Chasti SSSR, Tom III, Pereponchatokrylye, Piataia Chast'. Nauka, Leningrad, pp. 100 - 231. [in Russian]", "Chen, J. & Wu, Z. (1994) [The Alysiini of China: (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae).] China Agricultural Press, Fuzhou, 218 pp. [in Chinese]", "Belokobylskij, S. A. (1998) Tribe Alysiini. In: Ler, P. A. (Ed.), Key to the insects of Russian Far East. Dal'nauka, Vladivostok., pp. 163 - 298. [in Russian]"]}