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

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

Uncobracon gen. n. (Figs 54-59) Type species - Bracon apoderi WATANABE, 1933: monotypic and orginal designation. Etymology - The generic name Uncobracon is a combination of the Latin name "unco" (= uncus, hook) and the taxon name Bracon, gender masculine. Description - In several respects the new genus is similar and related to the genus Bracon FABRICIUS, 1804, the distinctive features of the new genus are as follows: Cheek below with a hook-like process directed anteriorly (Fig. 54). Propodeum with a medio-longitudinal carina (Fig. 55). Second tergite subfoveolate-rugose, tergites 3-6 with discrete and separate (i.e. not con­fluent) punctures, interspaces polished (Fig. 58). Uncobracon apoderi (WATANABE) Bracon apoderi WATANABE, 1933: Insecta Matsumurana 7 (4): 180 Çd, type locality: Shizuoka, Honshu Island, Japan, holotype Ç (= "Type") in Entomological Department, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan; examined. - SHENEFELT 1978: 1616 (literature up to 1964). Material examined - Holotype and 1 d paratype (paratype from the same locality as the holotype). - 1 Ç: Korea, Kangwon Prov., Mts Kumgang, singled material along the pathway to Kuryong-popo, 12 July 1991, leg. Mészáros & Zombori, loc. No. 1553. - 3 ÇÇ (ab. testaceus ab. n., description see further on): 1 Ç: Korea, Mts Kumgang, Ruekhaam, taken with Malaise trap, 10­12 July 1977, leg. Dely & Draskovits, loc. No. 358. - 1 Ç: Korea, Kangwon Prov., Mts Kumgang, Samil po, warm sunny day, Pinus densiflora forest with rich and partly degraded shrub-layer and underwood, sweeping and beating the vegetation, 18 June 1988, leg. Merkl & Szél, loc. No. 1324. - 1 Ç: Korea, North Pyongan Prov., Mts Myohyang, Hyangsan, singled material in the garden along the edge of the wood around Myohyangsan Hotel, very warm day with temperature around 35 °C, 3 July 1991, leg. Mészáros & Zombori, loc. No. 1491. Through Dr M. SUWA'S kindness (Entomological Department, Sapporo) I had the opportunity to check the type series (holotype ? and 1 6 paratype) of Bracon apoderi. Considering the modern requirements it seems expedient to complete WATANABE' s original description regarding the speci­mens (i.e. four females) of the same species taken in Korea. Description (holotype Ç and 4 ÇÇ). - Body 3.5-4.5 mm long (3.5: 2 ÇÇ, 4: 1 ?. 4.5: 2 ÇÇ). Head in dorsal view (Fig. 53) transverse, 1.9-2 as broad as long, eye twice as long as temple, latter receded. Eye slightly protruding from outline of head (Fig. 53). Circular opening about one­third wider than shortest distance between eye and margin of opening. Cheek below with an unci­form process directed anteriorly (generic feature, Fig. 54). Eye in lateral view 1.3-1.4 times as high as wide and distinctly twice as wide as temple. Face rugulose (2 ÇÇ) to subrugulose (3 ÇÇ), frons with fine and more or less dense punctation; vertex, occiput and temple polished with disperse and hardly distinct fine punctation. - Antenna with 27-34 antennomeres (27: 1 Ç, 30: 1 Ç, 34: 1 Ç, 2 ÇÇ with damaged antenna). Mesosoma in lateral view 1.3 times as long as high. Notaulix distinct and evenly deep. Propo­deum polished and with a medio-longitudinal strong carina as well as a pair of less strong carinae restricted to posterior half of propodeum and reaching up to spiracle situated medially close to lat­eral margin of propodeum (Fig. 55). Hind femur 4-4.2 times as long as broad distally (Fig. 56).

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