A new species of genus Atanycolus Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Braconinae) from India
Author
Ahmed, Ishtiaq
Zoological survey of India, Kolkata, West Bengal- 700053
Author
Kazmi, Sarfrazul Islam
Zoological survey of India, Kolkata, West Bengal- 700053
Author
Farooqi, Mohd Kaleemullah
Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh- 202002
Author
Ahmed, Zaheer
Entomology Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kashmir, Srinagar, J & K- 190006
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-04-05
5124
4
496
500
journal article
53634
10.11646/zootaxa.5124.4.8
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Key to Indian species of
Atanycolus
Foerster, 1863
1. Malar space 0.25× the eye length (
Sikkim
,
India
)......................................
A. hookeri
(
Cameron, 1907
)
-. Malar space equal to or more than half the eye length......................................................... 2
2. Second metasomal tergite without parallel longitudinally impressed crenulated grooves laterally, medio-basal triangular area without a deep impression.............................................................................. 3
-. Second metasomal tergite with parallel longitudinally impressed crenulated grooves laterally, medio-basal triangular area deeply impressed (
Uttarakhand
,
India
)...............................................
A. initiator
(
Fabricius, 1793
)
3. Suture between second and third metasomal tergites completely smooth; tergites three to six light yellow; dorsal head with a large black drop-shaped spot around stemmaticum; Female antenna 33–38 segmented (
China
).......................................................................................................
A. lindemani
Tobias, 1980
*
-. Suture between second and third metasomal tergites smooth laterally and shallowly crenulated medially; tergites three to six yellow; dorsal head without any black drop-shaped spot around stemmaticum; Female antenna 49–54 segmented...........................................................................
A. tangmargensis
Ahmed & Kazmi
sp. nov.
*
A. lindemani
Tobias, 1980
not known from
India
but we have included it in the key because the new species closely resembles it.