O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 68. (Budapest, 2007)

FOLIA Volume 68 ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK 2007 pp. 173-179. New records of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) for the fauna of Romania and the Carpathian Basin Z. LÁSZLÓ Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Babes-Bolyai University, 400006 Cluj-Napoca, str. Clinicior nr. 5-7. E-mail: laszlozoltan@gmail.com Abstract - Three genera (Cea WALKER, 1837, Erythromalus GRAHAM, 1956 and Perniphora RUSCHKA, 1923) and eleven species of Pteromalidae belonging to the subfamilies Ceinae, Ormocerinae, Miscogasterinae, Pireninae and Pteromalinae were found to be new for Romania. Two of them are new for the Carpathian Basin too. One new plant associate record is given for Thektogaster abdominalis DELUCCHI, 1953. Keywords - Hymenoptera, Pteromalidae, new records, Carpathian Basin, Romania. INTRODUCTION ANDRIESCU (1971, 1973, 1993) studied the Pteromalidae of Romania in detail, while several species records were published by BOTOC (1967, 1972) and TUDOR (1969,1971). In the last years the number of known Pteromalidae species for the fauna of Romania showed significant growing (ANDRIESCU 2001, ANDRIESCU & MlTROIU 2001, 2003^, b, 2004, LÁSZLÓ 2003, MlTROIU 2001, 2004, 2005^, b, MlTROIU & ANDRIESCU 2005, MlTROIU & POPESCU 2006). However, the Pteromalidae fauna of the Transylvanian part of Romania is still poorly known. The number of published species is around one hundred, while based on the number and complexity of habitat types there should be more than 400 species (LÁSZLÓ 2006). The specimens were collected by the author and other staff members of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM) between 1912 and 2002. Some of these species were determined by other chalcidologists (JÓZSEF ERDŐS, GUSZTÁV SZELÉNYI, HANS VON ROSEN and CSABA THURÓCZY), but