Hylcalosia Fischer, 1967

Li, Jimin, Wang, Lingmin, Chen, Jiahua, Yu, Shenkai & Yao, Junli, 2021, A new species of the genus Hylcalosia from China (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), Zootaxa 5040 (2), pp. 289-295 : 290

Genus Hylcalosia Fischer, 1967

Holcalysia Cameron, 1910: 6 (preoccupied, not Holcalysia Cameron, 1905: 268 ). Hylcalosia Fischer, 1967: 125 ; Shenefelt, 1974: 993; van Achterberg, 1983: 82; Belokobylskij, 1992: 144; 1998: 297; 2015:531;

Chen & Wu, 1994: 85; Fischer, 2008: 718; Zheng, Chen & Yang, 2012: 454. Zhu, van Achterberg & Chen, 2018: 549; Yao,

van Achterberg, Sharkey, Chapman & Chen, 2020: 622. Type species: Holcalysia ruficeps Cameron, 1910 .

Diagnosis. Scapus of antenna stout and basally narrower than apically, F1 shorter than F2 (including annellus), slightly compressed and often distinctly widened, its maximum width 1.5–2.0 × width of F2; clypeus triangular, protruding sharply anteriorly; eyes glabrous or with short and sparse setae; malar space almost absent; face densely rugose; mandible large, ventral lobe protruding, with 3 or 4 lobes, dorsal lobe strongly enlarged; maxillary palp with 6 segments; labial palp with 4 segments; pronope large and deep; notauli partially or completely present; mid pit large (sometimes almost extending to the middle of mesonotum); precoxal sulcus incomplete to complete; vein r of fore wing arising far behind middle of pterostigma; vein 2RS of fore wing slightly curved and longer than vein 3RS; vein 2cu-a of fore wing shorter than vein 2Cua or subequal; vein M+CU of hind wing longer than vein 1M; vein m-cu of hind wing nearly straight; vein 1r-m of hind wing long; propodeum coarsely reticulate-rugose (often antero-laterally smooth), with a short mid-longitudinal carina, sometimes with vague areola, but sometimes densely punctate or weakly rugose and areola distinct ( Zhu et al. 2018); propodeal spiracle (very) small; T1 with dorsal carinae anteriorly (rarely reaching to posterior half of T1), spiracle and dorsope small; T2 and T3 completely and coarsely longitudinally striate or rugose; T4 and following tergites (largely) retracted; ovipositor sheath largely glabrous, 0.4–0.8 × fore wing (but unknown of ruficeps and laosensis ); upper valve of ovipositor enlarged and enclosing small lower valve ( Zhu et al. 2018).

Distribution. Oriental ( China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand), Palaearctic region ( Russia).

Biology. Unknown.