Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 91. (Budapest 1999)

Papp, J.: Five new Microchelonus species from the Neotropical Region (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Cheloninae)

Microchelonus brasiliensis (BRUES), Ç new (Figs 17-25) Chelonus brasiliensis BRUES, 1912: Ann. ent. Soc. Amer. 5: 206 "Ç" = d, type locality: "Natal, Brazil", holotype (="Type") in Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA); examined. Microchelonus brasiliensis (BRUES): SHENEFELT 1973: 878 (comb, n., literature up to 1912). Chelonus (Chelonella) szepligetii Viereck, 1913: Proc. U. S. Natn. Mus. 46: 360 Ç, type locality: "Pernambuco, Brazil", female holotype in National Museum of Natural History, Washington; one female paratype (locality: San Bernardino, Paraguay) in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin; examined, syn. n. Material examined (5 ÇÇ + 4 dd) - Male holotype: Natal, Brazil, leg. W. M. MANN (Type No. 29929). - Five females + two males: Brazil, Pernambuco, 25 June 1930 (3 Ç + 1 d) and 1 July 1930 (1 ? + 1 d), leg. E, HORVÁTH. - 1 male: Brazil, Säo Paolo, Bury, 1928, leg. J. GYÖRGY. Redescription of the male holotype - Body 3 mm long. Antenna about as long as fore wing and with 19 antennomeres. Scape long, 2.3 times as long as broad medially, first flagellomere twice as long as broad apically, further flagellomeres progressively shortening so that flagellomeres 1618 subcubic, i.e. slightly longer than broad. - Head in dorsal view (Fig. 17) transverse, twice as broad as long, eye 2.3 times as long as temple, latter constricted, occiput excavated. Eye in lateral view 1.5 times as long as wide and nearly twice as wide as temple, latter evenly broad beyond eye Figs 17-25. Microchelonus brasiliensis (BRUES): 17 - head in dorsal view with indication of its sculpture, 18 = head in lateral view with indication of the sculpture of female and male temple, 19 = clypeus, 20 - distal part of right fore wing, 21 = male carapace in dorsal view with indication of its sculpture, 22 = male carapace in lateral view, 23 = apical end of male carapace in frontal view, 24 = female carapace in dorsal view, 25 = female carapace in lateral view