S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 60. (Budapest, 1999)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LX 1999 pp. 283-312 New and little known triaspidine species from Europe and tropical Africa (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Calyptinae, Triaspidini) J. Papp New and little known triaspidine species from Europe and tropical Africa (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Calyptinae, Triaspidini) — Four new Triaspis and one new Schizoprymnus species are described: T. flavofacies sp. n. and T. hispanicus sp. n. from Europe; T. mervarki sp. n., T. semiareola sp. n. and S. rasus sp. n. from the tropical Africa (or Ethiopian Region). The new species are related to their nearest allies. Redescriptions are presented for the species Schizoprymnus excisus (Snoflák), Triaspis devinensis Snoflák, T. pygmaeus (Szépligeti) (Tanzania) and T. sulcatus (Szépligeti) (Europe) and related to their nearest allies. Schizoprymnus arcuatus Tobias is a junior synonym of S. excisus (Snoflák) comb. n. and syn. n.; T. arcticus Hellén is a junior synonym of T. caudatus (Nees) syn. n.. Taxonomic observations are added to seven Triaspis species: T. crusta De Saeger, T. efluctus Papp, T. metacarpalis Tobias, T. obscurellus (Nees), T. pallipes (Nees), T. striatulus (Nees) and T. wittei De Saeger. Eleven afrotropical species, ranged by their original descriptions in the genus Foersteria Szépligeti, are transferred in the genus Triaspis Haliday, i.e. the eleven species names are new combinations. With 121 original figures. INTRODUCTION In his monograph ánoflák (1953) has reviewed 41 Triaspis species from Europe of which 15 species proved to be new to science, ánoflák considered the taxon Schizoprymnus as the subgenus of Triaspis, consequently the Triaspis species ranged in the Schizoprymnus by him are not counted here. Currently the taxon Schizoprymnus is raised to generic rank. - In his world catalogue of Braconidae Shenefelt (1970: 281-301) listed 44 Triaspis species from the western Palaearctic Region (Europe + northern Africa). This species number decreased to 25 in the key to the Triaspis species of the European part of the former USSR (Tobias 1986: 167-172). This decrease was motivated partly by synonymization of several names and partly by the transfer of several species to other genera (i.e. Aliolus Say, Dicyrtaspis van Achterberg, Schizoprymnus Foerster). Recently three new Triaspis species were described from Europe (Papp 1998a, b, 1999) increasing the number of the western Palaearctic Triaspis species to 28 with the remark that a few species (e.g. T. affinis Herrich-Schaeffer, T. caledonicus Marshall, T. facialis Ratzeburg) are disregarded owing to their uncertain taxonomic position.