S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 61. (Budapest, 2000)

Cratocnema juxtacasum sp. n. from Malgasy (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae) J. Papp Cratocnema juxtacasum sp. n. from Malgasy (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae) — Description of Cratocnema juxtacasum sp. n. is presented. The new species is nearest to C. leve Granger. The type series of C. juxtacasum (18 females) originally belonged to the type series of C. leve and is separated from it by a few distinct specific features summarized in the key following the description of the new species. Lecto- and paralectotypes are designated for the three Cratocnema species by Granger (1949): C. leve, C. tricolor and C. variicolor. Up to now 16 Cratocnema species are known and they are distributed in the Ethiopian Region, their checklist is added. With 13 original figures. Key words: Cratocnema, new species, description, type designations, checklist. INTRODUCTION The first two Cratocnema species (C. albopilosum and C. luteum) have been described by Szépligeti in 1913 in the genera Bracon Fabricius and Myosoma Brullé, respectively. The genus Cratocnema was set up by Szépligeti in 1914 with the descriptions of further eight species. Currently fifteen Cratocnema species are registered which are distributed in tropical Africa, the sixteenth species is described from Malgasy in the present paper; see also the checklist of the Cratocnema species. The genus Cratocnema is nearest to Bracon, Cratocnema differs from Bracon by its broadly compressed hind tibia bearing a longitudinal groove of variable length and depth (cf. Fig. 4, see arrow). In 1949 Granger described three Cratocnema species (C. leve, C. tricolor, C. variicolor) their type series are deposited in the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. In the descriptions the types were not designated in fact, however, having examined the type series of the three species there are one female specimen of each species which bear the separate label "Type" printed red. These specimens have been labelled certainly by Ganger himself and are recognized here as lectotypes. Abbreviations applied in the description: Eyes — OOL = shortest distance between hind ocellus and compound eye. POL = shortest distance between hind two ocelli. Alar venation — Fore wing: r — transverse radial vein; 1-M = basal vein; 2-SR — first transverse cubital vein; 3-57? and 4-SR = second and third sections of the radial vein; 1-SR-M - first section of the cubital vein. — Hind wing: cu-a = transverse cubito-anal vein.