Bracon ( Glabrobracon ) fumatus SZÉPLIGETI, 1901

Bracon ( Glabrobracon) fumatus SZÉPLIGETI View in CoL ( Figs 130-136 View Figs 130-136 )

Bracon fumatus SZÉPLIGETI 1901a: 264 View in CoL (in key) and 278 (description) (in Hungarian); 1904 (1901): 178 (in key) and 182 (description) (in German), type locality: " Budapest " ( Hungary), female lectotype (and 11 + 6 paralectotypes) in Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest; 1 + 1 paralectotypes in Biosystematic Research Institue, Ottawa and 1 paralectotype in Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin as exchange material; examined. - FAHRINGER 1927: 249 (), 258 () (in keys) and 354 (redescription), assigned to "Section Lucobracon ". TELENGA 1936: 169 (), 178 () (in keys) and 266 (redescription) (in Russian); 372 (), 381 () (in keys, in German), assigned to section Luco-/ Orthobracon . SHENEFELT 1978: 1633 (female lectotype designated after PAPP 1974, literature up to 1974). TOBIAS 1986: 142 (in key, in Russian). PAPP 1999: 277 ( lectotype and paralectotypes designations, redesription, synonymy); 2004: 175 (type depository).

Bracon brunneipennis SZÉPLIGETI 1901a: 268 View in CoL (in key) and 282 (description) (in Hungarian); 1904 (1901): 188, 190 (in key) and 193 (description) (in German), type locality: " Budapest " ( Hungary), female lectotype (and 9 paralectotypes) in Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest; examined. - FAHRINGER 1927: as valid species 292, 296 (in key) and 1928: 440 (redescription), assigned to "Section Glabrobracon ". TELENGA 1936: as valid species 148 (), 154 () (in keys) and 203 (redescription) (in Russian), 350 (), 357 () (in keys, in German). TOBIAS 1976: 67 (in key, as synonym of B. fumatus View in CoL ); 1986: 142 (as synonym of B. fumatus View in CoL ). SHENEFELT 1978: 1559 (as valid species, literature up to 1936). PAPP 1999: 277 (as synonym of B. fumatus View in CoL ); 2004: 172 (type depository).

Supplementary additions to the redescription of B. fumatus (PAPP 1999: 277-282) View in CoL :

(1) Head in dorsal view 1.66 times ( Fig. 130 View Figs 130-136 ) to 1.53 times ( Fig. 131 View Figs 130-136 ) as broad as long. Eye in dorsal view one-fifth ( Fig. 130 View Figs 130-136 ) to just longer ( Fig. 131 View Figs 130-136 ) than temple; temple more rounded than in Fig. 26 View Figs 24-35 (in PAPP 1999: 278). Hind femur 3.3-3.4 times as long as broad just distally ( Figs 132 View Figs 130-136 ). Claw as in Fig. 134 View Figs 130-136 .

(2) Variabilities of tergites 1-3: (a) Tergites 1-3 as in Fig. 32 View Figs 24-35 (in PAPP l.c.); (b) Third tergite antero-medially more weakly rugulose-uneven than second tergite ( Fig. 136 View Figs 130-136 ); (c) Second tergite medially rather longitudinally rugulose, third tergite usually smooth, or basally rugulose-uneven ( Fig. 135 View Figs 130-136 ) or sculptured as under (b); (d) Fairly exceptionally tergites 1-3 entirely polished.

(3) Bracon brunneipennis is a dark form of the nominate B. fumatus : brown to blackish maculae of head and mesosoma more extended, tergites medially with light to dark brown maculae of variable extension.

H o s t unknown.

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Hungary, Ukraine, Kazakhstan (PAPP l.c.); France (1: Vaucluse, Les Constants), Spain (1: Catalonia, Tibidabo), Serbia (2: Kosovo, Peć), Tunisia (1: Nakta), Turkey (1: Kirklarelli, Lüleburques), Cyprus (1: Yermasoyia).

R e m a r k s: Within the subgenus Glabrobracon the species B. fumatus is nearest to B. brunescens FAHRINGER & SCHMIEDEKNECHT , B. dolichurus MARSHALL and B. hilarellus SCHMIEDEKNECHT ; the distinction of the four species is presented in PAPP (l.c).