Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 101. (Budapest 2009)

Papp, J.: A study of Szépligeti’s types of Mesobracon species deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Braconinae)

A study of Szépligeti 's types of Mesobracon sp. (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) 85 REDESCRIPTIONS OF THE FIVE MESOBRACON SPECIES The following abbreviations of forewing veins are used in the redescriptions (after VAN ACHTERBERG 1993:

4-5): cu-a = nervulus, m-cu = transverse medio-cubitalor recurrent vein, r = first section of the radial vein, 1-M = basal vein, 2-M = third section of the cubital vein, 1-R1 - first section of the metacarpal vein, 2-SR = first transverse cubital vein, 3-SR = second section of the radial vein, 1-SR-M = first section of the cubital vein, SRI = third section of the radial vein. - Surface sculpture terminologies are used after HARRIS (1979). Mesobracon concolor SZÉPLIGETI, 1906 (Figs 11-18) Mesobracon concolor SZÉPLIGETI, 1906: 597 female, type locality: "Mozambique", female holotype, designated by PAPP in 1969 (QUICKE 1991 ), in Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest; examined. - FAHRINGER 1928: 122 (in key), 127 (redescription after SZÉPLIGETI 1906). SHENEFELT 1978: 1704 (distribution, literature up to 1928). QUICKE 1991: 184 (type depository). Designation of the female holotype - First blue label, printed: "Mozambiq"; second label is the holotype card; third label is with the inventory number "1600"; fourth label is with the identification by D. L. J. QUICKE in 1989 "Mesobracon concolor Szépl. 9". Holotype is in good condition: ( 1 ) pinned through the mesosoma, wings nicely expanded; (2) right antenna apically deficient. Redescription of the female holotype - Body 14 mm long. Antenna as long as body and with 95 antennomeres. Scape, pedicel and flagellomeres similar to those of: M. pulchripennis. - Head in dorsal view transverse (Fig. 1 1 ), 1.9 times as wide as long, eye protruding and almost twice longer than temple, temple rounded, occiput moderately excavate. Eye in lateral view 1.4 times as high as wide and almost twice wider than temple (Fig. 12, see arrows). Malar space as long as basal width of mandible. Horizontal diameter of oral opening equal to shortest distance between opening and eye. Face laterally and cheek finely punctate, frons finely and densely granulöse, otherwise head polished. Mesosoma in lateral view 1.7 times as long as high, polished. Medio-transverse sulcus of pronotum smooth. Notaulix moderately deep, smooth. Propodeum punctate, interspaces smaller than punctures, with a medio-longitudinal sulcus. - Hind femur 3.1 times as long as wide medially (Fig. 13). Inner spur of hind tibia clearly shorter than half of basitarsus. Hind basitarsus as long as tarsomeres 2-3 combined. Basal lobe of claw as in Fig. 14. Forewing as long as body. Pterostigma (Fig. 16) three times as long as wide and issuing r distally from its middle, r nearly 1.5 times longer than width of pterostigma; second submarginal cell less long, 3-SR and 2-M diverging distally, 3-SR 1.6 times as long as 2-SR, SRI bent, 1.25 times longer than 3-SR and approaching tip of wing. First discal cell wide, similar to that of M. pulchripennis (cf. Fig. 39). - Hindwing: cu-a just S-form (Fig. 15). Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009