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)
94 J • Papp mesosoma, (2) left flagellum apically deficient, (3) missing: tarsus of hind leg and tarsomeres 3-5 of left hind leg, (4) right fore wing apically somewhat creased and deficient, (5) metasoma glued to propodeum hence first tergite less visible. Redescription of the female holotype - Body 11 mm long. Right antenna as long as body, with 78 antennomeres. Scape more globose and its outer side deeply emarginate (Fig. 54), its inner side truncate (Fig. 55). - Head in dorsal view transverse (Fig. 56), twice as wide as long, eye protruding and clearly twice longer than temple, temple receded, occiput excavate. Eye in lateral view nearly 1.4 times as high as wide and clearly twice wider than temple, temple slightly narrowing dorsally (Fig. 57, see arrows). Malar space as long as basal width of mandible. Horizontal diameter of oral opening 1.5 times as long as shortest distance between opening and eye (Fig. 58). Face laterally and cheek finely punctate, frons densely subgranulose, otherwise head polished. Mesosoma in lateral view 1.8 times as long as high, polished. Medio-transverse sulcus of pronotum medially very finely crenulate, otherwise smooth. Notaulix deep, smooth. Propodeum subpunctate and with a medio-longitudinal sulcus. - Hind femur 3.7 times as long as wide medially (Fig. 59). Inner spur of hind tibia half as long as hind basitarsus. Basal lobe of claw large as in Fig. 60. Forewing slightly longer than body. Pterostigma (Fig. 61) nearly 3.6 times longer than wide and issuing r from its middle, r 1.5 times longer than width of pterostigma; second submarginal cell fairly long, 3-SR 1.7 times as long as 2-SR, 3-SR and 2-M indistinctly diverging distally; SRI as long as 3-SR, faintly S-form bent and approaching tip of wing. First discal cell wide, 1-M less than 1.3 times longer than m-cu, 1-SR-M S-form curved and somewhat longer than 1-M (Fig. 62). - Hindwing: cu-a curved as in Fig. 63. First tergite (tergite of the holotype less visible hence only its contour are depictable, Fig. 64) as long as wide behind, in lateral view dome-shaped as in Fig. 65. Second tergite less transverse, 1.5 times as wide behind as long medially, its median field basally wide and rather striate-rugose, laterally and together with further tergites rather areolate-rugose (Fig. 64). Ovipositor sheath almost as long as hind tibia. Body colour testaceous, head rather yellowish. Antenna blackish, ocellar field black. Tarsomeres 1-2 of left hind leg blackish. Wings yellowish, distally with brown streaks. Male and host unknown. Distribution - Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Uganda. Remarks - M. similis is near to M. concolor SZÉPLIGETI, their distinction see in the key couplets 1 (4) - 3 (2). Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009
