S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 59. (Budapest, 1998)

Material studied: Dolerus hibernicus Lacourt, 1988 paratype: "Paratype", "Dolerus hibernicus male 15. VII. 75. Galiber (73) 2500 m". Dolerus afghanicus sp. n. Female. Head and antenna black. Apex of mandible red. Vertex shining, deeply but not roughly punctured with shining interspaces 1-2 times as large as a puncture. Temples sporadically punctured with large shining areas. POL : OOL : OCL = 1.2 : 1.0 : 1.3. Clypeal emargination 0.25 times as deep as its median length. Head behind eyes slightly narrowed. Head and thorax covered with white pubescence about as long as front ocellus. Length of third/length of fourth antennái segment = 1.2. Length of antenna/length of costa = 0.8. Length of cenchrus/distance of the two cenchri = 0.8. Thorax red, the following parts black: lateral lobes of mesonotum except, their steep hind corners, mesoscutellum, metascutellum, mesepisternum, mesepimeron, metapleuron, mesosternum and metasternum. Mesepisternum and mesepimeron with red hind margin. Pronotum and propleuron densely and finely punctured. Mesonotum densely, deeply but not roughly punctured with shining interspaces 1-5 times as large as a puncture. Mesoscutellum shining, deeply and densely punctured with scattered shining areas not larger than 1-3 punctures. Mesoscutellar appendage with fine transverse sculpture. Metascutellum sporadically punctured. Mesopostnotum with very fine transverse sculpture. Metapostnotum smooth and shining. Mesepisternum with crater-like punctures. Mesepimeron with very fine coriaceous surface sculpture. Metepisternum and metepimeron shining, finely granulated and punctured. Mesosternum densely and moderately roughly punctured. Cenchri white. Legs black but inner surface of first femora with red spots and base of first coxae red. Abdomen red with two minute longitudinal stripes in the middle of the first tergum. First abdominal tergum smooth and shining, 2-9 terga with transverse surface sculpture. Ovipositor widened at its base with large fovea on each sides, black with red apex. Apical setae of sawsheath white, short and slightly curved as in Fig. 3. Wings hyaline. Venation and stigma black. Basal 1/5 of costa red. Length of fore wing: 10.2 mm. Length: 11.5 mm. Holotype: female. "NO. Afghan 1953 J. Klapperich", "Nuristan Bashgultal", "Kutiau 1500 m 5. V", "Dolerus curatus n. sp. Typ. Det. Zirng." Holotype is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Notes: Zirngiebl labelled this sawfly as a new species but he never described it. The new species is closely related to Dolerus klutchianus Malaise, 1931 and Dolerus variegatus Jakovlev, 1891. Differences: D. klutchianus and D. variegatus have legs extensively red. Upper half of their mesepisternum is red and mesepimeron is mainly red. First abdominal tergum, mesopostnotum, metascutum and metapostnotum are black. Apical hairs of their sawsheath are long. Smaller species: 9-10 mm. The sawsheath of D. afghanicus similar to the one of D. pakistanicus Muche, 1982 (syn. D. kurahashii Togashi, 1989 ) but this species is a relFig. 3.: Sawsheath of Dolerus afghanicus sp. n. in dorsal view