Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 85. (Budapest 1993)

Papp, J.: New braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 4

Ground colour of body light brown to brown. Scape, pedicel and first flagellomere yellow, flagellum brownish. Palpi pale yellow. Tegula and legs yellow. First tergite brownish yellow. Wings hyaline, pterostigma brownish with pale basal spot, veins yellowish. 6 and host unknown. Type material. - Holotype 9: India, West Bengal, Darjeeling District, Kurseong, 1000 m, 18 October 1967, leg. TOPÁL (NO. 848). - Holotype is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Department of Zoology), Budapest, Hym. Typ. No. 7503. Distribution: India. Etymology. - The new species is dedicated to its collector, Dr. GYÖRGY TOPÁL (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest), mammalogist and ardent collector of insects. The new species, Ecphylus topali sp. n., stands nearest to E. caudatus RUSCHKA, 1916 (Europe, North Africa, Japan) considering their common features including cubic head, antenna with 14-15 antennomeres and brownish yellow body. The two species are differentiated by the following features: 1 (2) Temple in dorsal view less rounded and 0.81 times as long as eye (i.e. head in dorsal view relatively more cubic) (Fig. 1). Mesosoma in lateral view elongated, 1.9 times as long as high. First tergite somewhat longer than broad at hind, evenly broadening posteriorly (Fig. 2). Ovipositor sheath long, as long as hind tibia + basitarsus. Alar membrane along n. bas. hyaline. Pterostigma brownish, basally pale yellow. 9:1.8 mm E. topali sp. n. 2(1) Temple in dorsal view more rounded and 0.66 times as long as eye (i.e. head in dorsal view relatively less cubic) (Fig. 3). Mesosoma in lateral view not elongated, 1.4 times as long as high. First tergite somewhat shorter than broad at hind, from base to spiracle strongly and beyond spiracle hardly broadening posteriorly (Fig. 4). Ovipositor sheath short, about as long as three-fourths of hind tibia and at most as long as hind tibia. Alar membrane along n. bas. brownish. Pterostigma pale yellow. $<5*: 1-2-1.8 mm. E. caudatus RUSCHKA, 1916. subfamily Exothecinae Proavga BELOKOBYLSKU Proavga BELOKOBYLSKU, 1989: Rev. d'Entom. URSS 68 (2): 377 (in key) and 390 (descr.), type species: Proavga lativalva BELOKOBYLSKU, 1989 (original designation). The genus Proavga was created by BELOKOBYLSKJJ (1989) on the basis of two species distributed in Australia. Besides the descriptions of the genus as well as the two species, BELOKOBYLSKIJ constructed a key to promote the separation of the two species in question. This key considerably helped me to recognize the third new Proavga species, three specimens of which were collected also in Australia. BELOKOBYLSKU accomplished a good survey of our current knowledge of the exothecine braconids occurring in the Australian fauna region. At the present time we know 20 hormiine species in Australia which are ranged in the following six genera (the