Anisocyrta perdita Haliday, 2018

Zhu, Jiachen, Achterberg, Cornelis Van & Chen, Xuexin, 2025, A revision of five genera of Alysiini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) from China, with description of five new species, Zootaxa 5569 (3), pp. 401-438 : 411

Anisocyrta perdita Haliday, 2018

Figs 7–8

Alysia perdita Haliday, 1838: 241 ; Thomson 1895: 2298–2299.

Anisocyrta perdita ; Marshall 1895: 368–369; Shenefelt 1974: 956; Belokobylskij 1998: 286–287, 2003: 357.

Material examined. 1 ♀ (ZJUH), China, Hebei, Mt. Xiaowutai, Jinhekou, 23.viii.2005, Zhang Hongying, No. 200609041.

Short redescription. Body brown ( Fig. 7 ); body length of ♀ 2.9 mm, length of fore wing of ♀ 3.7 mm, antenna yellowish brown, incomplete, with 24 antennomeres remain ( Fig. 8O ); mandible yellowish, with fourth tooth distinctly visible ( Fig. 8L ); pronope shallow and small ( Fig. 8I ), side of pronotum (partly) granulate anteriorly ( Fig. 8C ); mesoscutum smooth, shiny and glabrous; notauli absent; medio-posterior depression rather long, elliptica ( Fig. 8D ); vein m-cu of fore wing slightly postfurcal, vein issued at base of pterostigma, vein 1-SR of fore wing 1.6 × vein 3-SR ( Figs 8A–B ); legs rather yellowish; length of first tergite of metasoma 1.1 × longer than apical width ( Fig. 6F ); length of ovipositor sheath 0.5 × as long as fore wing and 1.5 × the body ( Fig. 6G ).

Biology: Unknown.

Distribution. Austria, Canada, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, China (Hebei, Ningxia). Ningxia is a new record.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Anisocyrta xiaoliyaoaeYao, ♀, China, Ningxia. A fore wing; B hind wing; C mesosoma, lateral aspect; D mesosoma, dorsal aspect; E propodeum, dorsal aspect; F First tergite of metasoma, dorsal view; G ovipositor, lateral aspect; H hind femur and tibia, lateral aspect; I basal antennomeres of antenna, lateral aspect; J head, dorsal aspect; K head, anterior aspect; L head, lateral aspect; M mandible, full view of first and second teeth; N mandible, full view of third and fourth teeth; O antenna, lateral aspect.

FIGURE 7. Anisocyrta perdita (Haliday), ♀, China, Ningxia, habitus, lateral aspect.

FIGURE 8. Anisocyrta perdita (Haliday), ♀, China, Ningxia. A fore wing; B hind wing; C mesosoma, lateral aspect; D mesosoma, dorsal aspect; E propodeum, dorsal aspect; F First tergite of metasoma, dorsal view; G ovipositor, lateral aspect; H hind femur and tibia, lateral aspect; I basal antennomeres of antenna, lateral aspect; J head, dorsal aspect; K head, anterior aspect; L head, lateral aspect; M mandible, full view of first and second teeth; N mandible, full view of third and fourth teeth; O antenna, lateral aspect.