Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

Móczár, L.: Kieffer's Mesitius and Epyris-Types in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae)

half distance of their length from anterior one ; lower margin of clypeus triangular in shape strongly projecting, with a rather broad longitudinal keel ; mandibles rather broad and cut obliquely at apex with a sharp tip; maxillary palpi with 6, labial palpi with 3 segments (Fig. 13) ; length (and breadth) of antennái segments 1 — 13 = 9(5) : 5(4) : 5(4) : 7(4) : 8 : 8 : 8 : 8 : 8 : 7.5(3) : 7.5 : 7 : 10(3) (Hym. Type No 68). Pronotum about as broad (in front of tegulae) as (long together with collar -j-6) = 32:33; length of pronotum : mesonotum: scutellum: postscutellum: propodeum = 33 : 9—14 (vary depending on position of pronotum): 11: 2: 19 4- 5; sides of propodeum parallel, broader than long (24 : 19) (except declivous part), with a sharp complete central keel and with a finer, parallel, not complete keel on each side, surface between keels rugulose. Fore femora as long as tarsi (22 : 22) ; fore tibiae, mid femora, tibiae, as well as hind femora and tibiae and at last mid tarsi of about equal lengths (16 : 16: 17 : 26 : 25 : 26) ; hind tarsi longer (30) than any other of the leg joints. Ninth abdominal sternite with a central stalk, very narrowed and cut almost straight posteriorly, with about 14 strong bristles at apex (Fig. 12), genitalia very characteristical by the hyaline acute lobes of paramere, broad penis valves and the forked three-pointed ends of digitus (Fig. 11). Epyris evanescens KIEFFER Epyris evanescens KIEFFER, 1908, Spec. Hym., 9. p. 327 çf Epyris evanescens: 1908, KIEFFER, Gen. Insect., 7G. p. 27 Epyris evanescens: 1914, KIEFFER, Das Tierreich, 41. p. 321 çf According to KIEFFER'S description this species "Patrie. Serbie, septembre (HORVÁTH)." The data of the specimen examined in Mus. Budapest are: "SERBIA: Nis", "HORVÁTH Sept. 1902, "130", Epyris evanescens" in BIRÓ'S writing (light brown label) (mouth parts and genitalia on celluloid), Hym. Type No. 78. This specimen must be, without a doubt, the holotype. The following differences are to be found between description and holotype: "Metanotum avec trois arêtes dorsales" in fact: longitudinal keel on propodeum complete and distinct only in the middle, on both sides very low, melting into the surrounding sculptured area and especially the one on the right is not straight; KIEFFER (1914. p. 321): "Mandibel. . . schräg abgestutzt und mit 3 oder 4 kleinen Zähnen" in reality: mandibles with a remarkably long tooth ventrally and with 4 minute dorsal teeth; "Kopf . . . grob punktiert" correctly: head densely alutaceous, slightly shining with rather dense but shallow punctures (about 20 punctures in a line between the eyes). In addition to the description: frons convex, a central short, narrow and remarkably deep furrow above the origin of eyes, length (up to clypeus) and breadth of head == 36 : 35, eyes oval, rather straight, truncate in front and almost meeting mandibles in front, nearly two-thirds as broad as long (12 : 17), separated by less distance than their length from occiput (10 : 12) ; ocelli distinct, in a right angle, lateral ones separated from occiput by a distance of two-thirds POL (4 : 6), anterior ocelli half far from posterior ones as distance of POL ; clypeus strongly narrowed anteriorly, with a central keel ending before antennái sockets; maxillary palpi with 6, labial palpi with 3 segments (Fig. 16) ; antennái segments remarkablv long, length (and breadth) of segment 1-13 = 9(6) : 6(4) : 8(4) : 10 : 11 : 12 : 12 : 12 : 12: 11(3) : 10 : 10 : 12. Pronotum, mesonotum more shining than head, and alutaceous; pronotum broader than long (34 posteriorly: 29, with collar -f-7), notaulices of meso-