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ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK LIX 1998 pp. 145-162 Contribution to the Braconid fauna of the former Yugoslavia, IV Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) J. Papp Contribution to the Braconid fauna of the former Yugoslavia, IV. Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae).-Seventy - eight braconid species are reported from the former Yugoslavia which had disintegrated into five republics. This species assemblage belongs to nine genera. Eight synonyms were established. The majority of the braconine species is new to the fauna of one or more independent republics. INTRODUCTION Since my last contribution (Papp 1977) the uniform state of Yugoslavia has disintegrated into five independent countries corresponding to the constituent federal republics. This political change is indicated in the title of the present article with the additional word "former". It seems unreasonable to discontinue the faunistic contributions of the braconid fauna of the former Yugoslavia under the title of my previous papers (Papp 1973, 1975, 1977) owing to its mere political disintegration. Its natural history unity has several times been emphasized, in this case the last argumentai paper was published by Matvejev & Puncer (1989). Nevertheless, as the result of the political disintegration the faunistic contribution extends to the five republics: BosniaHerzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia + Montenegro = Crna Gora ("little Yugoslavia") and Slovenia. In the years of 1987-1994 M. M. Brajkovic (Belgrade) published six articles which are either new contribution to the braconid fauna of the former Yugoslavia (Brajkovic 1992a-b, 1994a-b) or checklist of the braconid species also of the former Yugoslavia (Brajkovic 1988-89) or description of a new Orgilus species (O. vasici sp. n.) from Kopaonik Mts, Serbia (Brajkovic 1987). According to Brajkovic (1994a: 223) "...about 470 species of braconids have been registered for the fauna of former Yugoslavia." The papers of Brajkovic confirmed me to consider the former Yugoslavia as a natural unity from entomological point of view. In the present paper seventy-eight braconid species belonging to nine genera are reported, this species assemblage represents exclusively the subfamily Braconinae. The nine genera have the following numbers of species: