Tanycarpa Foerster, 1863

Peris-Felipo, Francisco Javier & Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2019, Tanycarpa broadi sp. nov., a new Neotropical species of the genus Tanycarpa Foerster, 1863 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Alysiinae), with a key to the New World taxa, Zootaxa 4586 (2), pp. 295-300 : 296

Genus Tanycarpa Foerster, 1863

Tanycarpa Foerster 1863: 265 ; Shenefelt 1974: 1026; van Achterberg 1976: 12; Wharton 1980: 71; 1986: 455; Chen and Wu 1994: 134, Belokobylskij 1998: 198; Wharton 2002: 99; Yao et al. 2015: 170 .

Acrobela Foerster 1863: 266 ; Wharton 2002: 99 (as synonym).

Epiclista Foerster 1863: 264 ; Wharton 1986: 455 (as synonym).

Hypostropha Foerster 1863: 264 ; Fischer 1971: 143 (as synonym).

Type species. Bassus gracilicornis Nees, 1812 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. First flagellomere longer than second, most flagellomeres without long setae; clypeus moderately small, weakly protruding; anterior tentorial pits moderately small, never reaching eye borders; maxillary palpus slender, longer than height of head. Precoxal sulcus crenulate, distinctly developed and linear, wide and deep; scutellum moderately convex, never with posterior spine; propodeal spiracle small and round, its diameter much shorter than distance between spiracle and anterior margin of propodeum. Fore wing venation complete; vein r arising before middle of elongate or often nearly linear stigma; vein 3-SR approximately equal to vein 2-SR; second submarginal cell small; first subdiscal cell closed distally; vein CU1a arising near middle of distal margin of first subdiscal cell, never interstitial. Metasoma weakly compressed; ovipositor sheath with fairly numerous, moderately long setae.

Hosts. Fly larvae from the family Drosophilidae ( Yao et al. 2015; Yu et al. 2016).