Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 88. (Budapest 1996)

Papp, J.: Braconidae (Hymenoptera) from Korea, XVIII

Bracon (Bracon) trucidator MARSHALL, 1888 (western Palaearctic Region) is also similar to the new species, besides the distinctive characteristics in the above key there are further features separating the two species: 1 (2) Head in dorsal view less transverse, 1.6 times as broad as long (Fig. 45). Dl of fore wing wide, cul 1.4 times as long as n.bas.2 (cf. Fig. 38). Tergites black, laterally rusty red, sternites somewhat lighter. Ç: 3.4 mm B. (B.) merseli sp. n. 2(1) Head in dorsal view transverse, distinctly 1

.8 times as broad as long (Fig. 51). Dl of fore wing less wide, cul hardly longer than n.bas.2 (Fig. 52, see arrows). Metasoma and hind femur yellow, latter rarely more or less darkening brownish to blackish. Çd: (2.3-)4-5 mm B. (B.) trucidator MARSHALL Bracon (Sculptobracon) yakui WATANABE Bracon yakui WATANABE, 1937: J. Fac. Agric. (Sapporo) 42 (1): 25 (in key) and 27 (description) Çd, type locality: Sapporo (Japan), holotype (and two paratypes) in Entomological Department, Hokkaido University, Sapporo; examined: holotype and 1 Ç + 1 dparatypes. Bracon (Sculptobracon) burjaticus TOBIAS, 1961: Rev. d'Ent. URSS (Moscow-Leningrad) 40: 661 Ç, type locality: Baykal Region, Ulan-Ude (Russia), holotype in Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg; not examined; syn. n. Material examined -1?: No. 140. 1 ?: No. 145. 1 ?: No. 227. I ?: No. 243.1 Ç: No. 386. 1 Ç: No. 946. 1 ?: No. 963. 1$: Pyongyang City. 6 August 1982, leg. Beron & Popov. 1 Ç (in Warszawa): Mts Keumkang, 28 August 1959, leg. Pisarski. The subgenus Sculptobracon was described by TOBIAS in 1961 on the basis of the monotypic species Bracon burjaticus TOBIAS. In checking the species B. yakui it proved to represent this subgenus within the genus of Bracon FABRICIUS. A comparative examination of the type-series of B. yakui and authentic specimen (1 Ç: det. TOBIAS) of B. burjaticus led me to the recognition that B. burjaticus is a junior synonym ot'B. yakui sen. syn. Having examined the type-series of B. yakui significant deviations were observed between the Japanese type forms and the Korean forms, these are as follows: Japanese forms: Body 4-4.5 mm long, antenna with 28 antennomeres, ground colour of body black with little reddish testaceous pattern, legs blackish or brownish with yellow pattern on fore and middle femora-tibiae. Korean forms: Body 3-3.5 mm long, antenna with 23-24 antennomeres (23: 2 ÇÇ, 24: 5 ÇÇ), ground colour of body black with variable reddish yellow pattern, legs reddish yellow to yellow. Since its description the species is known only from the type localities in Japan (B. yakui) and in Russia: Baykal Region (B. burjaticus). New to the fauna of Korea.