Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 85. (Budapest 1993)

Papp, J.: New braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 4

Body black, antenna blackish. Palpi dirty yellowish. Tegula black. Coxae black, trochanters blackish, femora 1-2 blackish and apically brownish rusty, femur 3 brownish rusty with blackish tint, tibiae and tarsi brownish rusty, fifth segment of tarsi 1-2 dark. Wings hyaline, pterostigma opaque light yellowish, veins proximo-distally yellowish to brownish yellowish. Description of the female paratypes (9 9 9).- Similar to the holotype 9. Body 2-2.3 mm long (2: 5 9 9, 2.1: 2 9 9, 2.2: 1 9, 2.3: 1 9). Head in dorsal view transverse, 1.7-1.92 times as broad as long (1.7: 1 9,1.85: 5 9 9,1.88: 2 9 9,1.92:1 9). First tergite 1.6-1.8 times as long as broad (1.6: 5 9 9,1.7: 2 9 9,1.78:1 9,1.8: 19). Description of the male paratypes (13 d d). - Similar to the female. Body 1.4-2.2 mm long (1.4:1 d, 1.9: 2 d d,

2: 4 <? d, 2.1: 3 d d, 2.2: 3 d d). Head in dorsal view transverse, 1.85-1.92 times as broad as long (1.85: 9 dd, 1.86: 1 d 1.89: 2 dd, 1.92: Id). Antenna somewhat longer than body, flagellum faintly attenuating, first flagellomere three times and penultimate flagellomere 1.75 times as long as broad. First tergite 1.69-1.92 times as long as broad basally (1.69: 1 d, 1.7: 1 d, 1.77; 1 d, 1.78: 4 dd, 1.84: 4 dd, 1.85: 1 d, 1.92:1 d). Third femur almost entirely black. Type material. - Holotype 9: Italy, Scafati (SA), 10 September 1987 (collecting time of the host), ex larva Mamestra brassicae LINNAEUS (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) October 1987 (in laboratory) (food-plant of the host Nicotiana tabacum LINNAEUS), leg. et educ. L. SANNINO. - Paratypes (9 99 + 13 dd: Italy, Scafati (SA), 7 September 1987: 1 9 + 2 dd 10 September 1987: 2 dd and 11 October 1988: 6 9 9 + 11 dd (collecting time of the host), ex Mamestra brassicae LINNAEUS (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) October 1987 and October 1988 (in laboratory) (food-plant of host Nicotiana tabacum LINNAEUS), leg. et educ. L. SANNINO. Holotype ( 9 ) and 16 paratypes (6 9 9 + 10 d d) are deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Department of Zoology), Budapest, Hym. Typ. Nos 7519 (holotype) and 7520-7535 (paratypes); 5 9 paratypes in the Istituto Sperimentale il Tabacco, Scafati; 3 9 + 1 d paratypes in the Dipartimento di Entomologia e Zoológia Agraria, Portici; 1 9 + 1 d paratypes in the Natural History Museum, London, 19 + 1 d in National Natuurhistorisch Museum, Leiden and 1 9 + 1 d paratypes in the Zoological Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Sankt Peterburg. Etymology. - The species name "praecipuus" refers to the unusual form of the veins rl, cuqul and c2 of the fore wing (praecipuus = strange, queer). Distribution: Italy (Palaearctic Region). The new species, Protapanteles praecipuus sp. n., runs to P triangulator (WESMAEL, 1837) (Europe) with the help of my key to the species-group of Apanteles popularis (PAPP 1984). Currently the group represents the genus Protapanteles ASHMEAD, 1898 (MASON 1981, PAPP 1988). The two species are distinguished by a few clear-cut features which are disclosed in a key: 1 (2) Metacarp short, clearly shorter than pterostigma; length of metacarp just longer than distance between its distal and that of radial vein (Fig. 53: see arrows). Vein rl, cuqul and cu3 characteristically thickened (Fig. 53). Clypeus conspicuously wide and narrow, five times as wide as high; tentorial pits far from each other, i.e. distance between them about four times as long as shortest distance between a pit and lower point of eye; cleft between clypeus and mandible unusually large (Fig. 52). Penultimate flagellomere subcubic, 1.2-1.25 times as long as broad. Propodeum entirely coriarious-subrugulose, around lunule rugulose. First tergite 1.5-1.8 as long as broad basally (Fig. 55). Mesonotum shiny, medially smooth, laterally dispersely subpunctate. Fifth segment of fore tarsus ( 5 $ ) without spinule. Hypopygium pointed, ovipositor sheath wide (Fig. 56) P. praecipuus sp. n.