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Huddleston, T.: A revision of Elasmosoma Ruthe (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) with two new species from Mongolia
Helwan, 30. X.-5. XI. 1944, R. L. COE (BMNH). — çf, Spain, (Murcia) : Near Aquilas' 27. VI. 1974, Z. BOTJCEK (BMNH). : * Same data (USNM). Host record: Cataglyphis bicolor (FABRICIUS) Although collected in different localities from the females, I associate these males with them because of the close resemblances in their facies and their common possession of the obtuse ocellar triangle which is exhibited, albeit to a lesser degree, by only one other species, described above (cubiceps sp. n. ). The differences in the antennae, the eyes and the hind tibial spurs are almost certainly secondary sexual characteristics. E. platamonense sp. n. is closely related to E. cubiceps sp. n., both have features in common which appear in no other species; the obtuse ocellar triangle, the relative shortness of the middle leg, the thick blunt spine of the hind tibia (Figs. 9, 12 and the colour pattern. Both species clearly belong in the genus Elasmosoma as I understand it probably constituting a distinct species-group. Elasmosoma schwarzi ASHMEAD Elasmosoma schwarzi ASHMEAD, 1895: 283. Holotype $ , USA : Washington, DC. (USNM, 23984) (examined). The characteristics of its gaster make this species quite distinctive. I have Seen one specimen apart from the type ; the gaster of this specimen is less elongated than that of the type specimen, I believe that the difference can be accounted for as differences in the flexion of the gasters and in the stretching of the intersegmental membranes. $, USA: Pennsylvania, Hebersburg, VIII. 1939, Mrs. L. E. SHIXN (USNM). Host records : Formica pallidefulva schaufussi MAYR, Polgergus lucidus MAYR. Elasmosoma viennense GIRAUD Elasmosoma viennense GIRAUD 1871: 301. As shown by BEXGTSSON (1918) this species properly belongs in the genus Neoneurus. Elasmosoma vigilans COCKERELL Elasmosoma vigilans COCKERELL, 1909: 1Ö8. Holotvpe Ç USA: Colorado, Boulder (USNM, 23130) (examined). I have seen only the type of this species. Unfortunately the hind legs are missing; they were presumably present in 1941 when MUESEBECK observed the hind tibial spur to be longer than the basal segments of the tarsus in vigilans. The hypopygium of this species is deeply notched. Host record : Formica subpolita MAYR. References ASHMEAD, W. H. (1895) : Discoverv of the genus Elasmosoma Ruthe, In America. —Proc. ent. Soc. Wash., 3: 281-284. " BENGTSSON, S. (1918) : Die Gattungen Neoneurus Haliday und Elasmosoma Ruthe, Monographisch dargestelt. — Acta. Univ. Lund, 14(32): 3-28. CAPEK, M. (1970): A new classification of the Braconidae (Hymenoptera) based on the cephalic structures of the final instar larva and biological evidence. —Can Ent., 102(7): 846-875. COCKERELL, T. D. A. (1909): Anewbraconid of the genus Elasmosoma. — Proc. ent. Soc. Wash., 10: 168-169.
