Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 92. (Budapest 2000)

Papp, J.: First synopsis of the species of obscurator species-group, genus Bracon, subgenus Glabrobracon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae)

middle. Second submarginal cell long, 3-SR one-fifth longer than 2-SR, 4-SR reaching tip of wing. Metasoma elongate, about as long as mesosoma + head combined. First tergite (Fig. 50) 1.4-1.6 times as long as broad behind, rim laterally from scutum narrow, beyond pair of spiracles parallel sided. Tergites 2-3 equal in length and less transverse, second tergite 2.5 times as broad behind as long, suture between tergites 2-3 just bisinuate or almost straight, shallow, smooth. Tergites polished. Ovipositor sheath long, as long as body or somewhat longer. - Body and legs black. Mandible brown to brownish yellow, palpi brown. Legs sometimes blackish brown. Sternites 1-2 yellow(ish). Wings subhyaline to weakly brownish fumous, pterostigma and veins brown, dark brown. Specific features of the males (6 cj) - Similar to the females. Body (2-)2.

3-2.8 mm long. Antenna almost as long as body and with (18-)22-26 antennomeres. Head in dorsal view 1.6-1.65 times as broad as long, eye twice as long as temple. First tergite 1.6-1.8 times as long as broad behind (Fig. 51). Host unknown. Distribution - Sweden, *Norway, Finland, *Denmark, *France, *Germany, *Czech Republic, *Hungary, ^Bulgaria, Greece, *Italy, *Spain, *Turkcy. Taxonomic position - Within the subgenus Glabrobracon the species Bracon longulus stands nearest to B. pallicarpus THOMSON considering their long ovipositor sheath, less transverse head and dark coloured body; their distinction is given in the key-couplets 29 (32) - 31 (30), p. 234. Bracon (Glabrobracon) marshalli SZÉPLIGETI, $ó* et sp. rev. (Figs 52-55) Bracon obscurator NEES sensu MARSHALL, 1885 (nec NEES, 1834): Trans ent. Soc. London p. 16 (in key) and p. 45 (No. 35, description) $o* (syntype series existing?), type locality: England. -SHENEFELT 1978: not included. Bracon marshalli SZÉPLIGETI, 1901 new name for B. obscurator NEES sensu MARSHALL: Allait. Közlem. Pótfűz. Term.

tud. Közi. 64: 270 (in key, in Hungarian) and Math, naturw. Ber. Ung. 1904 19 (1901): 191 (in key, in German) Ç6*, type locality: Budapest, Óbuda (Hungary). -PAPP 1996: 387 (as synonym of B. obscurator NEES). SHENEFELT 1978: 1575 (as synonym of B. obscurator NEES after PAPP I.e., literature up to 1969). TOBIAS 1986: 133 (in key, as synonym of B. obscurator NEES). The type series of Bracon marshalli - SZÉPLIGETI (1901: 270) described this species on the basis of female and male specimens, the precise number of the syntype specimens and the type locality were not indicated by him, i.e. the species was described within the key and was not presented its detailed description in the traditional way. At present two male specimens of B. marshalli are housed in the braconid collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, these two male syntypes belong unambiguously to the original type series, female is not represented. The two males were collected by SZÉPLIGETI at the locality "Budapest Óbuda" which is considered as the type locality of this species. One male was designated by me as the lectotype and one male as the paralectotype, Hym. Typ. Nos. 1340-1341.