Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 71. (Budapest 1979)

Papp, J.: A survey of the European species of Apanteles Först. (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Microgasterinae) III. The laevigatus-group, 2

posterior two ocelli; distance between fore and a hind ocelli equal or indistinctly greater than diameter of hind ocellus. Face, mesonotum and scutellum smooth, shiny to polished, with extremely fine, small and disperse punctures. First tergite 1.3-1.5 times longer than wide at hind, parallel-sided (Fig. 104), its hind horizontal surface rugulose (Fig. 48). Ovipositor sheath almost as long as hind tibia and basitarsus combined, wide (Fig. 101). Middle and hind legs black to blackish. 9o*

: 2.8-3.5 mm. — England, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Hungary, USSR (European part, Georgia) A. gagates (NEES, 1834) 272 (271) Wings hyaline, subhyaline or, at most, faintly fumous. Metacarp more or less, usually distinctly, longer than stigma (Figs. 10, 50, 53). Penultimate joint of antenna usually not cubic. Nervellus of hind wing strongly incurved (Figs. 108) or hardly incurved (Fig. 76). Legs with an extensive light-coloured pattern. 273 (276) Legs, except coxae and trochanters, reddish yellow, at most middle and hind femora with fuscous or brownish pattern. 274 (275) Mesonotum shiny and almost smooth, i.e. with extremely fine, small and rather disperse punctation. Stigma relatively large, twice longer than wide (Fig. 10). Tegulae black. Further details see at couplet 221 (220) A. decorus (HAL.) (!) 275 (274) Mesonotum dull, with well-defined punctures varying from contiguous to almost contiguous (Fig. 49). Stigma not large, 2.7-3 times longer than wide. Tegulae yellow to bright yellow. Further details see at couplets 93 (94) and 94 (93) in PAPP 1978a A. paralechiae MUES. (!) A. renaulti MASON (!!) 276 (273) Legs black with more or less yellow, brownish yellow or rusty pattern; femora always black, except fore femur of A. eleagnellae. 277 (278) Spines of outer side of hind tibia extremely numerous and close-set (Fig. 155 in PAPP 1978a). First tergite 1.3-1.4 times longer than wide at hind (Fig. 153, I.e.). Further details see at couplets 242 (243) and 128 (127) in PAPP 1978a A. soikai Nix. ( ! !) 278 (277) Spines of outer side of hind tibia much less numerous, rather disperse (Fig. 82). 279 (280) First tergite with weakly, though distinctly arched sides. Penultimate 2-3 joints of antenna 1.6 times longer than broad. Further details see at couplet 11 (10) in PAPP 1978a A. starki MASON (!!) 280 (279) First tergite parallel- or subparallel-sided (Figs. 105, 109). 281 (282) Tegulae yellow. Fore femur fully brownish yellow, middle femur black and only apically brownish yellow, hind femur entirely black. Prescutellar furrow wide and deep, with ten crenulae. rl and cuqul arched, i.e. not angularly meeting with each other. Ovipositor sheath hardly longer than hind tibia. 9d*

: 2.2-2.4 mm. — USSR: Armenia A. eleagnellae TOBIAS, 1976* 282 (281) Tegulae black. Fore femur also more or less, at least its proximal half, black. Prescutellar furrow narrow, shallow to very shallow, finely crenulated. rl and cuqul angularly meeting with each other (Figs. 50, 53). Ovipositor sheath distinctly longer than hind tibia, usually as long as hind tibia and basitarsus or tarsal joints 1-2 combined (Fig. 107). * I know this species only on the basis of its description (TOBIAS 1976a). It may well be, of course, that not the most characteristic specific features are included in the present key.