Bracon (Novum)

Papp, J., 2008, A revision of the Bracon (subgenera Bracon s. str., Cyanopterobracon, Glabrobracon, Lucobracon, Osculobracon subgen. n., Pigeria) species described by SZÉPLIGETI from the western Palaearctic Region (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Braconinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1741-1837 : 1749-1750

Subgenus Osculobracon subgenus novum

Type species: Bracon osculator NEES 1811 .

S u b g e n e r i c d i f f e r e n c e s (1) In all respects identical with the subgenus Glabrobracon except metasomal chitinization from the third tergite: hind half to twothirds / three-fourths of tergites weakly chinitinized (or weakly sclerotized), i.e. tergites here membraneous (or desclerotized) and its colour whitish or yellowish. Second tergite usually polished, less usually (weakly) sculptured ( Fig. 54 ). (2) Claws of fifth tarsomeres faintly curved ( Fig. 51 , 70 ).

A total of eleven Bracon species are assigned to the new subgenus Osculobracon :

B. ( O.) cingillus TOBIAS 2000 - Japan, Asiatic Russia ( Primorski Krai)

B. ( O.) cingulator SZÉPLIGETI 1901 - Palaearctic Region

B. ( O.) ciscaucasicus TELENGA 1936 - Palaearctic Region

B. ( O.) juncicola ASHMEAD 1889 - Canada, U.S.A.

B. ( O.) koreanus PAPP 1998 - Korea, Asiatic Russia

B. ( O.) melanopsis ASHMEAD 1891 - Canada, U.S.A.

B. ( O.) osculator NEES 1811 - Palaearctic Region

B. ( O.) pelliger TOBIAS 1961 - Kazakhstan

B. ( O.) repetekiensis TOBIAS 1967 - Turkmenia

B. ( O.) subcingillus TOBIAS 2000 - Asiatic Russia ( Primorski Krai)

B. ( O.) venustus TELENGA 1936 - South Europe, southern part of European Russia, Georgia

Figures

Figs 46-59. Bracon cingulator S46-55 46 th th 47 ZÉPLIGETI 1901 (holotype:): () flagellum: first, second, 25 and 26 flagellomeres, () head in dorsal view, (48) head in lateral view, (49) ventral half of head in frontal view, (50) hind femur, (51) claw, (52) distal part of left fore wing, (53) first discal cell, (54) tergites 1-4, (55) hypopygium and ovipositor apparatus, (56) hind femur, (57) second submarginal cell of left fore wing:, (58) first tergite:. - Bracon osculator NEES 1811: (59) head in dorsal view.

Figs 60-70. Bracon cingulator SZÉPLIGETI 1901: (60) head in dorsal view:, (61) head in dorsal view:, (62) distal part of right fore wing: