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

subfamily Cheloninae Chelonus pictus sp. n. $ (Figs 28-34) Description of the holotype 9. - Body 5 mm long. Head in dorsal view (Fig. 28) twice as broad as long, eye just less than twice as long as temple, latter constricted, occiput excavated. Ocelli small, round and forming a triangle. Distance between fore and a hind ocelli 1.5 times as long as diameter of an ocellus, POL = OOL. Eye in lateral view 1.8 times as high as wide, width of temple behind eye one-fifth shorter than that of eye. Malar space as long as basal width of mandible. Face clearly twice as wide as high, inner margin of eyes slightly converging ventrally. Clypeus 1.8 times as wide as high. Head roughly rugose, occiput with transverse striate elements. - Antenna about as long as head and mesosoma together, with 25 (right antenna) and 24 (left antenna) antennomeres. First flagellomere three times and penultimate flagellomere 1.3 times as long as broad. Mesosoma in lateral view 1.37 times as long as high. Notaulix weak. Propodeum with a medio-transverse keel ending laterally in a pair of tuberculiform denticules. Mesonotum strongly punctate, interspaces about as large as punctures, with porcate elements before prescutellar furrow. Scutellum smooth with hardly distinct and disperse subpunctures, shiny. Pronotum, mesopleuron and metapleuron with more or less confluent strong punctation; propodeum roughly rugose. - Hind femur 3.46 times as long as broad medially. Hind basitarsus as long as tarsal segments 2-4. Pair of spurs of hind tibia unequal in length, inner spur shorter than half basitarsus (Fig. 29). Fore wing as long as carapace and half of mesosoma. Pterostigma (Fig. 30) 2.36 times as long as wide and issuing radial vein distally from its middle; r2 just longer than rl, metacarp as long as pterostigma, radial cell along metacarp shorter than pterostigma itself (Fig. 30: see arrows), r3 ending far before tip of wing. Nervulus 1.5 times as long as dl. - Distal half of radial cell of h i n d wing clearly narrower than that of proximal half (Fig. 31). Carapace in dorsal view (Fig. 33) 1.86 times as long as broad posteriorly, its basal converging pair of keels short; in lateral view (Fig. 34) gradually becoming higher posteriorly, its hind end rounded; apico-ventrally hardly incurved (Fig. 32). Carapace on its anterior half striate with a few anastomoses, interstriate surfaces densely rugose; on its posterior half rugose with more or less longitudinal elements (Fig. 33). Ovipositor sheath in lateral view as long as hind tarsal segments 2-3. Body tricoloured. Head and carapace black, pair of basal spots of carapace pale yellow. Mesosoma testaceous; prosoma and propodeum black; scutellum medially and metanotum anteriorly blackish, small upper spot on mesopleuron black. Tegula brownish. Mesosternum darkening brownish. Carapace laterally (on its declivous part) beyond pale spot faintly rusty. Wings weakly brownish fumous, pterostigma blackish brown, parastigma yellow; venation proximally yellowish, distally brownish. o* and host unknown. Type material. - Holotype 9: Afghanistan, Kabul Province, Pul-e Charkhi, 22 km ENE of Kabul city centre, 178 m, netted in flood basin of Kabul river, 19 June 1974, leg. L. PAPP (NO. 163).

S - Holotype is deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Department of Zoology), Budapest, Hym. Typ. No. 7511. Etymology. - The species name "pictus" refers to the tricoloured body. Distribution: Afghanistan (Palaearctic Region). R e m a r k. - In 1983 Dr. V I. TOBIAS (Zoological Institute, Sankt Peterburg) examined the specimen, henceforth holotype of the new species, and gave the provisional name on his label as "Chelonus sp. ?n. aff. medus Tel.". The new species, Chelonus pictus sp. n., runs to Ch. medus TELENGA, 1941 (Iran, Turkmenia) with the help of TELENGA'S key to the Chelonus species of the late USSR and the adjacent countries (TELENGA 1941) considering their common features such See L. PAPP'S (1975) itinerary report of his collecting trip to Afghanistan.