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Papp, J.: First synopsis of the species of obscurator species-group, genus Bracon, subgenus Glabrobracon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 92 Budapest, 2000 pp. 229-264. First synopsis of the species of obscurator species-group, genus Bracon, subgenus Glabrobracon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae) J. PAPP Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-1088 Budapest, Baross utca 13, Hungary PAPP, J. (2000): First synopsis of the species of obscurator species-group, genus Bracon, subgenus Glabrobracon (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae). - Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 92: 229-264. Abstract - Short review of the subgeneric classification of the genus Bracon and the species-groups of the subgenus Glabrobracon. Within the subgenus Glabrobracon TOBIAS (1958) separated thirteen species-groups which he, nearly thirty years later, refused to adopt in his monograph (TOBIAS 1986). PAPP (1966) selected eight species-groups, BEYARSLAN & FISCHER (1990) retained seven species-groups for the Glabrobracon species. With their black to blackish, dark brown corporal colour the species ranged in the obscurator-group are forming a well separable species assemblage. The obscurator-group comprises fifteen species, their specification see in the introductory chapter. From among the fifteen species two are new to science: Bracon (Glabrobracon) admotus sp. n. and Bracon (Glabrobracon) kopelkei sp. n. A key was constructed to the fifteen species of the obscurator-group and four further species were also included in it which are the melanic forms of the respective nominate species, i.e. these forms deceptively representing the obscurator-group. Descriptions of the two new species as well as redescriptions of the thirteen species are presented completed with the lists of the hosts of ten species, while hosts of five species are unknown. With 98 figures. INTRODUCTION In 1927 FAHRINGER set up four sections in the subgenus Bracon FABRICIUS, 1804, the sections were as follows: Glabrobracon, Lucobracon, Orthobracon and Striobracon. TOBIAS (1957, 1958, 1961«, 19616) was the first who emended the subgenus Bracon sensu FAHRINGER to generic as well as the sections by FAHRINGER to subgeneric ranks. According to TOBIAS'S system (1986: 114-149) the genus Bracon is composed of ten subgenera in the Palaearctic Region, they are