Atanycolus Foerster, 1863

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, Zootaxa 5448 (2), pp. 248-260 : 250

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 .