S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 50. (Budapest, 1989)
2 (1) In dorsal view temple rounded and one-third shorter than eye (Fig. 1). Ocelli less small, distance between two ocelli somewhat longer than diameter of hind ocellus. Sclerotized plate of first tergite linearform anteriorly and broadening to rounded posteriorly (Figs 6-71. Propodeum rugose. Head and mesosoma blackish brown, face brownish yellow, pronotum and prosternum with brownish yellow to rusty pattern. <j>: 2.2 mm. - U.S.A. (Maine) M. heinrichi sp. n. Checklist of the Mirax Haliday, 1833 species of America, 8 species are distributed in the Nearctic and 3 species in the Neotropical Region: aspidiscae Ashmead, 1893: Canada, USA brasiliensis Brues, 1912: Brazil coptodiscae Walley, 1941: Canada, USA ectoedemiae ÍRohwer, 1914): USA heinrichi sp. n. : USA insularis Muesebeck, 1937: Guadeloupe, Dominica, Porto Rico (introduced), St. Lucia (introduced) lithocolletidis Ashmead, 1893: Canada, USA malcolmi Marsh, 1979: Colombia minuta Ashmead, 1893: USA pallida Ashmead, 1893: USA texana Muesebeck, 1922: USA TAXONOMIC AND BIONOMIC DATA OF TWO EUROPEAN MIRAX SPECIES Dr. E. Haeselbarth (München) was kind enough to put at my disposal his NUrax^ collection amoutning 132 specimens and originating from a few countries of Europe (Federal Republic of Germany, northern Italy, Spain: Canary Islands). Elaborating this material parallel with 26 Mirax specimens in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Budapest) it seems reasonable to contribute the taxonomic and bionomic data obtained which may be considered as a completion to my previous paper of the Palaearctic Mirax species (Papp 1984). a) Taxonomic remarks of Mirax dryochares Marshall and M. rufilabris Haliday Colour of body of both species is usually dark: head, mesosoma and metasoma blackish brown to pitch-black (excepting yellow or pale first and sometimes second tergites) and at most with brownish to rusty suffusion on head (face) and pronotum/prosternum; legs always light coloured: yellow to straw yellow, at most (hind) coxae brownish to blackish. This pattern of colour is characteristic to the specimens taken in Europe. Contrary to this colouration a sample (24 o + 2 6) of Mirax rufilabris bred from a " Stigmella sp. n. " (Lep. Nepticulidae) taken in Canary Islands (Spain) and an another sample (18 <j>) of the same species bred from Acalyptis minimella Rebel (Lep. Nepticulidae) taken in northern Italy (Palmanova) are representing a light coloured form: head, meso- and metasoma reddish yellow to light brownish at most with brown(ish) tint on mesosomal (pronotum, mesopleuron, metanotum, propodeum) sutures. The sample of northern Italy consists totally of 39 c- specimens of which 21 belong to the dark coloured form and the rest (18 <j>) is but light coloured. A similar colour deviation were observed in a little sample (7 <j> +2 i) of Mirax dryoc hares bred from Trifurcula anthyllidella Klimesch (Lep. Nepticulidae) taken in northern Italy (Pagnera), of which 2 <j> are light coloured (head, meso- and metasoma reddish yellow, mesonotum and hind tergites brownish), further specimens (5 £ + 2 6) representing the nominate dark coloured form. light coloured form is also occurring in among the population of the European part of the USSR considering Tobias's remark (1986: 459) on M. rufilabris : "rarely body entirely brownish yellow" (translated from Russian).
