Boros István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 7. (Budapest 1956)
Szelényi, G.: Notes on the Merisina (Hym., Chalcidoidea)
discal ciliae dusky, marginal ciliae shorter than the stigmal knob ; proximal third of the wings bare, basal vein indicated by a few short setae ; relative length of submarginalis, marginális, stigmalis and postmarginalis as 3,8: 2,3 : 1 :2,1. Abdomen somewhat longer than head and thorax together, strongly concave and a little broader than thorax ; first and sixth tergite a little longer than the others, strongly shining, smooth, 4 th —6 th tergite very delicately reticulate. Tip of the ovipositor exserted. Length : 2.1-2.8 mm. Male. Differing from the female by the following characteristics : Scape hardly longer than pedicel and funicle 1 together ; pedicel as long as wide, hardly half the length of funicle 1, the latter nearly thrice as long as wide, the following joints gradually decreasing in length, the 6 th joint one and a half times as long as broad; funicle joints cylindrical and covered with hairs hardly shorter than the width of the respective joint. Club as long as the two •preceding joints together, distinctly 3-articulated and but shortly tapering at tip ; thorax somewhat longer, mesoscutum less transverse than in female ; propodeum without median carina, spiracular sulci more distinctly indicated ; femora blackish with bluish tint, fore and middle tibiae yellow, hind ones with brownish ring before middle. Abdomen about as long as thorax, nearly black with distinct metallic tint. Length: 2.1—2.5 mm. Notes on the variability. The relative lengths of the marginal and stigmal vein seem not to be constant, there are specimens (bread from the same host!) on which the former is but one and a half times as long as the stigmal vein. Abdomen sometimes with distinct coppery tint at base. Five female and one male were reared by Prof. Bálás from galls of Phanacis centaureae. They are smaller, the stigmal vein longer, the propodeum more shining, the abdomen brighter, the funicle joints subquadrate. Host : Timaspis papaveris Kieff. living in the stems of Papaver somniferum ; and Phanacis centaureae Först. living in the stems of Centaurea sadleriana (the real host in the latter case not revealed). Holotype and allotype : Hungary : Budapest (Hűvösvölgy), 27. VIII. 1935 and 8. VIII. 1935, respectively. Paratypes from the same host and from the same locality ; further Budapest (Sashegy), 18—22. IV. 1948, reared by Prof. Bálás from galls of Phanacis centaureae Först. Nominated to honour the late Russian entomolrgist,N. V. Kurdjumov. The type specimens of all these new species are in the Hung. Nat. Hist. Museum, Budapest. Literature : A s h m e a d, W. H.: Mem. Carnegie Mus. I. 1904. — B r è t h e s, J.: An. Mus. Nat. Hist. Buenos Aires, XXIV. 1914, 90. - C h e s n o k o v, P. G.: Rev. Russe d'Entom. XXIV. 1930, 182-193. - Erdős, J.: Acta Biol. Acad. Sei. Hung. IV. 1953, 236—247. -Erdős, J.: Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Nat. Hung. (Ser. nova) VI. 1955, 294-295.F örst er, A.: Beitr. Monogr. Pterom. 1841, 15, 17. — Förster, A.: Hymen. Sud. II. 1856, 145. - Förster, A.: Verh. Naturh. Ver. Preuss. Rheinland. XXXV. 1878, 52. G a h a n, A. B.: U. S. Dept., Agric, Miscell. Publ. nr. 174, 1933. - G a h a n A. B. & Fagan, M. M. : U. S. Nat. Mus. Smithsonian Inst. Bull. 124,1923,89. - G a h a n, A. B. á W a 11 a c e, G. E.: Ent. News, LXI. 1950, 96-99. - G i r a u 11 A. A.: Arch. Naturg. Abt. A. LXXIX. 1913, 91. - G i r a u 1 1, A. A.: Canad. Entom. XLVIII, 1916, 408-409. - Kurdjumov. N. V.: Rev. Russe d'Entom. XIII. 1913. - Ma si, L.: Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agr. Portici, V. 1911, 141-145. - Ma si, L.: Nov. Zool. XXIV. 1917, 179. - Ma si, L.: Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Genova, X. 1921-1926, 226-232. - Ponomarenko, D. A.: Zascs. Rast. V. (1928) 1929, 549-557. - R i m s k i j - K o r s a k o v, M. N.: Trudi Bjur. Entom. X. 1914,60. - S c h m i e d e k n e c h t, O.: Genera Insect. XCVII. 1909 362. - Thomson, C. G.: Hymen. Skand. V. 1878, 64-69. -Walker F.: Ent. Mag. I. 1833, 465, II. 1834, 166-167, III. 1835, 190.
