O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 67. (Budapest, 2006)

Pteromalidae species new for the Carpathian Basin (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidca) 157 Comparative material - T. sokanowskii NOVITZKY, 1955: Russia, Western Caucasus, Sotchi, lectotypc, ex. Parmena balteus L. (Lamiidae) per S. NoviTZKY, det. Z. BOUCEK 1996, 1 female, BMNH. - T. pulcher WALKER, 1836: England, unlocalised, type, det. KERR1CH & GRAHAM (under T. pulcher WALKER (= princeps)), 1 female, BMNH; Danemark, E-Jutland, Mols, Skovbjerg, leg. MÜNK 10.IX.1997, det. Z. LÁSZLÓ 2005, 1 female, HNHM; Switzerland, Zürich, Katzensce, leg. B. MERZ 17.IX.1996, det. H. BAUR 2004, 1 female, NMBE; Hungary, Mátra, leg. ERDŐS 19.VI.1952, det. Z. LÁSZLÓ 2004, 1 female, HNHM; Hungary, Mátra, Nagyátalkő, leg. ERDŐS 6.VII.1962, Z. LÁSZLÓ 2004,2 females, HNHM; Hungary, Kalocsa, leg. ERDŐS 13. V. 1945, det. Z. LÁSZLÓ 2004, 1 female, HNHM; Romania, Cluj county, Cluj-Napoca, Carpineto-Quercetum, leg. Z. LÁSZLÓ 27.V.2004, det. Z. LÁSZLÓ 2004, 1 female, HNHM. Remarks - The species was mentioned by NoviTZKY (1955). However, he mentioned in his paper that SOKANOWSKY in the 1930s asked him to identify some sent specimens and gave as reference SOKANOWSKY (1936). The designated type was collected in the West Caucasus, Sotschi (Sochi), Krasnodar, Russia by BORIS SOKANOWSKY and it was reared from a larva of Parmena balteus (LINNAEUS, 1767) (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) on Hedera helix. KERRICH & GRAHAM (1957) regarded T. sokanowskii NoviTZKY, 1955 as a junior synonym of T. princeps WESTWOOD, 1832. GRAHAM (1993) stated correctly that it resembles more T. pulcher WALKER, 1836 than T. princeps WESTWOOD, 1832, and it could be a form or a subspecies of T. pulcher WALKER, 1836, but he treated it as a distinct species. The main difference between T. pulcher and T. sokanowskii is the shape of the cloud below the stigmal knob. In T. pulcher the cloud if it appears, is usually pale and restricted to the area below the stigmal vein, while in T. sokanowskii the cloud is dark and tending towards the base of the wing with a horizontal band under the marginal vein and the prestigma. After a careful examination of the female specimens of T. pulcher and T. sokanowskii no other diagnostic character was found, except that mentioned above. For a precise diagnosis of the two species, more material is required and herein I follow GRAHAM (1993) and treat T. sokanowskii as a distinct species. Cratomus DALMAN, 1820 Remarks - The representatives of the genus Cratomus DALMAN, 1820 (Chalcidoidca, Pteromalidae, Cratominae) are distributed in the Nearctic and Western Palearctic. Only one species, C. megacephalus (FABRICIUS, 1793) is known from Europe, while three other species are known from North America only.