Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 101. (Budapest 2009)
Papp, J.: A study of Szépligeti’s types of Mesobracon species deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hymenoptera, Braconidae: Braconinae)
102 J. Papp The key for the 24 Mesobracon species (known at the time) is rather a compilation relied mainly to the colour and body length differences picking out from the original descriptions. In the present paper SZÉPLIGETl 's three Mesobracon species are redescribed, including to several features (measurements of body parts, wing venation, sculpture quality) important in the unambiguous recognition of the parasitoid braconids. Two Mesobracon species described by BRULLÉ (M. litura, M. rugó sus ) represented by one female specimen each and identified reliably by NIXON are also housed in the HNHM. Both species are redescribed. A checklist of the 27 Mesobracon species known from the Afrotropical Region is compiled. Mesobracon SZÉPLIGETI, 1902 Mesobracon SZÉPLIGETI, 1902: 46, type species: M. pulchripennis SZÉPLIGETI, 1902 (designated by VIERECK 1914: 92). - FAHRINGER 1928: 117-142 (key to 24 species, redescriptions). SHENEFELT 1978: 1704 (literature up to 1949). QUICKE 1987: 82 (in key), 120 (taxonomy). Paraspinaria CAMERON, 1905: 205 (January, not October 1905). - SHENEFELT 1978: 1711 (as valid genus). QUICKE 1987: 120 (as new synonym of Mesobracon). Telerda CAMERON, 1906: 75. - SHENEFELT 1978: 1704 (as synonym of Mesobracon after TURNER 1917: 245). QUICKE 1987: 120 (as synonym of Mesobracon). Generic features of Mesobracon - Tarsal claw bifurcate, lobe of the claws with three pectiniform spinules (Figs 10, 14, 24, 49, 60). Scape globose, its outer side emarginate (Figs 9, 19, 54). Median flagellomeres of antennae transverse, i.e. clearly wider than long. Second tergite with a pair of oblique and posteriorly converging furrows forming a three-sided area (Figs 17,29,43,52,64). Tergites 4-6 without antero-lateralpair of smooth fields. Scutum of first tergite in lateral view dome-shaped (Figs 18, 28, 44, 53, 65). KEY TO THE THREE GENERA INCLUDED IN THE MESOBRACON GENUS-GROUP 1(2) Tarsal claws simple, strongly curved downwards, its basal lobe square (Fig. 1 ). Median flagellomeres considerably longer than wide. First tergite longer than wide behind. Scape globose, at most weakly emarginate (Fig. 2). Mesobraconoides SARHAN et QUICKE, 1990 Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009
