Atanycolus ivanowi (Kokujev 1898)

Petersen-Silva, Ricardo, Pujade-Villar, Juli, Naves, Pedro, Edmundo Sousa, & Belokobylskij, Sergey, 2012, Parasitoids of Monochamus galloprovincialis (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), vector of the pine wood nematode, with identification key for the Palaearctic region, ZooKeys 251, pp. 29-48 : 33

Atanycolus ivanowi (Kokujev 1898) Figures 4c5b6d

Material examined.

Portugal: 4 females, "Vale Feitoso II, Maio 2011", "Col. Entomologica, est. Florestal"; 1 female, same labels, but 12.VI.2011; 1 male, "Vale Feitoso II, Maio 2011".

Distribution.

Palaearctic: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan ( Yu et al. 2005) and Turkey ( Bolu et al. 2009). This species is here recorded for Portugal for the first time.

Hosts.

Anthaxia aurulenta (Fabricius), Anthaxia deaurata (Gmelin), Chrysobothris solieri (Laporte & Gory), Ovalisia mirifica (Mulsant), Melanophila picta decastigma (Fabricius); Sphenoptera tappesi Marseul ( Buprestidae ); Arhopalus syriacus (Reitter), Stictoleptura rubra (Linnaeus), Monochamus galloprovincialis (Olivier), Tetropium fuscum (Fabricius), Tetropium gabrieli Weise ( Cerambycidae ) ( Yu et al. 2005, Bolu et al. 2009).

Biology.

Atanycolus ivanowi was found to be an ectoparasitoid of first larval stages of Monochamus galloprovincialis living under the bark of Pinus pinaster .

Remark.

Monochamus galloprovincialis was already recorded by Campadelli and Scaramozzino (1994) as a host of Atanycolus ivanowi in Italy.