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FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LUI 1992 p. 129-134 Bracon strobilorum Ratzeburg and its related species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae) By J. Papp (Received April 10, 1992) Bracon strobilorum Ratzeburg and its related species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae). Redescription and neotype designation of Bracon (Lucobracon) strobilorum Ratzeburg, 1848. A key was prepared to distinguish the closely related species to B. strobilorum. With 17 original figures. The Swiss entomologist, Mr. M. Kenis (Delémont) was kind enough to send me a small material of braconid wasps reared by him from the anobiid beetle larva Ernobius (?)abietis Fabricius, a pest of spruce cones. Besides other braconids a series of a form belonging to the genus Bracon Fabricius, after a circuitous and tiresome identification work, proved to represent the long-forgotten ("nomen oblitum") species Bracon (Lucobracon) strobilorum Ratzeburg. Fortunately, J. T. C. Ratzeburg (1848: 40, 1852: 39) had given a relatively good and interprétable characterization of his species which, in essential, helped me to recognize it on the basis of the Cracow-series from Switzerland mentioned. Former taxonomic and bionomic contributions to this species were published by a few authors. The taxon was ranged in the genera Coeloides Wesmael, Habrobracon Ashmead or Microbracon Ashmead (Shenefelt 1978: 1744) - a zoological procedure revealing incomplete knowledge of the species itself. Considering the taxonomic situation disclosed above it seems reasonable to redescribe Bracon strobilorum and to designate its neotype - an assessment to clarify the taxonomic position of Bracon strobilorum and its closely related species. Bracon (Lucobracon) strobilorum Ratzeburg Bracon strobilorum Ratzeburg, 1848: Ichneum. Forstins. 2: 40 ?, syntype localities: Schleusingen (Thüringen) and Hohenheim (?Württemberg) (Germany), syntypes destroyed. Locality of neotype (present designation): Morgins, Wallis (Switzerland), neotype deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Coeloides strobilorum (Ratzeburg, 1848): Shenefelt: Hym. Cat. 15 Brae. 10: 1744 (literature). Description of the neotype 9 - Body 3.5 mm long. Head cubic, in dorsal view (Fig. 1) 1.45 times as broad as long, eye as long as temple, head between eyes as broad as between temples close behind eye. Ocelli small and elliptic, distance between fore and a hind ocelli 1.5 times as long as OD, POL 1.75 times as long as OD, OOL 1.28 times as long as POL. Occiput hardly excavated. In lateral view (Fig. 2) eye 1.55 times as high as wide, temple somewhat wider than eye and