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 Designation of the female holotype ofM. pulchripennis - First label, printed: "Congo fr. / Kuilu"; second label, PAPP'S handwriting: "Brazaville / Congo"; third label is the holotype card; fourth label is with the inventory number "1601 "; fifth label is with VAN ACHERBERG'S (1979) identification "Mesobracon pulchripennis Szépl.... type series checked". - Holotype is in good condition: ( 1 ) pinned through mesosoma, (2) fifth tarsomere of left fore leg missing, (3) left fore wing glued on a separate card (attached to pin close below wasp). Redescription of the female holotype ofM. pulchripennis. - Body 19 mm long. Antenna shorter than body, with 97 antennomeres. Scape globose, widening distally, its inner side one-fourth longer than wide distally (Fig. 32), its outer side obliquely emarginate (Fig. 9). Pedicel small, first flagellomere less transverse, slightly broader than long, flagellomeres 2-4 shortening so that further flagellomeres 1.7 times broader than long (Fig. 32). - Head in dorsal view transverse (Fig. 33), 1.9 times as wide as long, eye almost 1.5 times longer than temple, temple rounded. Eye in lateral view (Fig. 34) almost 1.4 times as high as wide and a bit less than twice as wide as temple. Malar space about as long as basal width of mandible. Horizontal diameter of oral opening slightly longer than shortest distance between opening and eye (Fig. 35). Face and cheek punctate, frons finely striate, interspaces finely granulöse, occiput with confluent punctation; otherwise head polished. Mesosoma in lateral view 1.6 times as long as high, polished. Medio-transverse sulcus of pronotum crenulate. Notaulix distinct, posteriorly becoming more shallow. Propodeum medially polished and with medio-longitudinal sulciform impression, laterally with rather disperse punctures. - Hind femur 3.5 times as long as wide medially (Fig. 36). Inner spur of hind tibia half as long as basitarsus. Hind tarsomeres thick (Fig. 37). Forewing as long as body. Pterostigma (Fig. 38) 3.3 times as long as wide and issuing r from its middle, r longer than width of pterostigma; second submarginal cell long, 3-SR twice as long as 2-SR , SRI as long as 3-SR and approaching tip of wing; 1-R1 1.5 times as long as pterostigma. First discal cell wide, 7-Mclearly 1.25 times as long as m-cu, 1-SR-M bent and also 1.25 times longer than 1-M(Fig. 39). - Hindwing: cu-a straight as in Fig. 40. First tergite (Fig. 43) as long as wide behind and somewhat less broadening posteriorly; scutum in lateral view dome-shaped (Fig. 44), in dorsal view rugose, lateral margin of tergite smooth, with a few weak crenulae. Second tergite almost 1.9 times broader behind than long medially, its median field emerging well, together with further tergites areolate. Suture between tergites 2-3 deep, crenulate (Fig. 43). Ovipositor sheath as long as hind tibia, its apical end as in Fig. 45. Scape and pedicel black, flagellum dark brown to brown. Head yellow, frons, vertex and occiput black. Mandible brownish yellow, apically black. Palpi brownish. Mesosoma, metasoma anci legs light brownish yellow. Sixth tergite black with a medio-longitudinal narrow brownish yellow streak. Hind tarsus blackish. Forewing: proximal half brownish yellow, distal half black to blackish and here with a median pale yellow "fenestra"; before pterostigma a black transverse streak. Hindwing also brownish yellow with two transverse dark streak distally. Variable features of the two female specimens. - Body 16 mm long (1 female). Antenna with 88 (1 female) and 102 (1 female) antennomeres. Head in dorsal view twice as wide as Annls hist.-nat. Mus. natn. hung. 101, 2009
