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Dyscoletes Haliday, 1837 (=Elachistocentrum Schulz, 1911; =Microcentrus Szépligeti, 1904) Up to now two species are registered in this genus, one in Europe and one in North America. The hosts of the Dyscoletes species are the mecopterous Boreus spp. Dyscoletes lancifer (Haliday, 1837) (=Discoletes [sic] similis Szépligeti, 1896) - In Europe a rare to sporadic species, reported from England, Belgium, France, Slovenia (Shenefelt 1970: 214), Hungary and recently from Bohemia and Slovakia (Capek & Lukas 1989: 36) as well as from Latvia (Tobias 1986: 158). First reported from Hungary (Budapest, Hármashatárhegy) under the synonymous name D. similis by Szépligeti (1896: 314). - Localities: II/l: 1 6 (paralectotype of D. similis, Hym. Typ. No. 1795, in Budapest Museum): Budapest, Hármashatárhegy, 30 V 1895, leg. Szépligeti. 1 9: Budapest, Hárshegy, swept in Querceto-Melicetosum. 1 6: Budapest, Svábhegy. 1 9 (lectotype of D. similis, Hym. Typ. No. 1794, in Budapest Museum): Visegrád, 26 V 1895, leg. Szépligeti. /7/2: 1 9: Jósvafő. III/3 (Transylvania): 2 6: Osebeshely (=Sibiselul Vechi). - V-VI. Taphaeus Wesmael, 1835 Originally in this genus twelve species had been described from the Palaearctic Region. Currently three species are ranged in this genus, nine species were transferred in the genera Blacometeorus Tobias and Diospilus Haliday. In Hungary one species is known so far. Taphaeus hiator (Thunberg, 1822) (-Helcon [Diospilus] speculator Haliday, 1835) - Widely distributed in the Palaearctic Region, however, nowhere frequent. First reported from the Hortobágy National Park in Hungary (Papp 1983: 316); in the former Czechoslovakia listed only from Slovakia (Èapek & Lukas 1989: 36). - Localities: I/l: 1 9: Egyek, Ohat, nature reserved forest. 1 9: Lakitelek, Tőserdő, taken with pit fall. 1 6: Peszér (=Kunpeszér). 1 ó: Tiszasziget. II/l: 1 9: Budapest, Zugliget. 7/7/2 (Ruthenia): 3 6 (as D. ephippium Nees in Szépligeti 1896: 313): Mármaros, Pop Iván. III/

5 (Transylvania): 1 9 + 1 d: Nagyenyed (=Aiud). - V-VII. Helconini Ashmead, 1900 The tribe Helconini was created by Förster (1862: 229, 255) in the wide systematical sense under the name Helconoidae, however, literally the "Helconini" was first adopted by Ashmead (Shenefelt 1970: 186). More than two decades ago Hedqvist (1967) revised the Palaearctic Helconini species taking the tribe to comprise three genera: "Aspidocolpus" (correctly Aspicolpus Wesmael, 1838), Helcon Nees, 1814 and Helconidea Viereck, 1914. In 1986 Tobias (p. 150) ranged also three genera in this tribe (considering the European fauna of the former USSR): Aspicolpus, Helcon and Wroughtonia Cameron, 1899. One year later Van Achterberg (1987) published the most recent comprehensive revision of the European species and genera of the tribe Helconini and assigned three genera in this tribe: Helcon, Helconidea and Wroughtonia. It is somewhat enigmatic why he did not assign here the fourth genus Aspicolpus? In my comprehesion the tribe is represented by four genera: Aspicolpus, Helcon, Helconidea and Wroughtonia, in the European fauna of which the first three occur in Hungary too. Supposedly the fourth genus, Wroughtonia, is also present in our fauna, however, has not been detected so far. Recently Belokobylskij (1989, 19906, 1993) described six new