Atanycolus denigrator (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ichneumon denigrator Linnaeus, 1758, 10a 1: 563.

Bracon denigrator: Panzer, 1801: 163 .

Atanycolus denigrator: Foerster, 1862, 19: 238; Shenefelt, 1978: 1441; Papp, 1998: 147; Sheng, 1990, 12 (1): 56.

Biology. Reported from the following hosts: Acanthocinus aedilis L., Rhagium indagator F., R. inquisitor L., Saperda populnea L. and Tetropium fuscum L. ( Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Anthaxia morio F. and Chrysobothris chrysostigma L. ( Coleoptera: Buprestidae).

Distribution. China (Inner Mongolia); Austria; Bulgaria; Croatia; Czechoslovakia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Israel; Italy; Kazakhstan; Korea; Mongolia; Niger; Norway; Poland; Russia; Slovakia; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; United Kingdom.

Note. This species has been reported from Daxing’an Mountain (China) by Sheng (1990), but no specimens were available for our study.