Bracon ( Glabrobracon ) immutator NEES

Bracon ( Glabrobracon) immutator NEES View in CoL

Bracon immutator NEES 1834: 76 View in CoL , type locality: "prope Sickershausen" ( Germany), type series: many female and male syntypes, destroyed). - SHENEFELT 1978: 1636 (synonyms, aberrations, literature p to 1974). TOBIAS 1986:129 (in key, in Russian).

Bracon hemirugosus SZÉPLIGETI 1901a: 261 View in CoL (in key), 275 (description) (in Hungarian), 1904 (1901): 160 (in key), 168 (description) (in German). - SHENEFELT 1978: 1491 (as valid species, literature up to 1974). TOBIAS 1986: 125 (as synonym of B. intercessor NEES View in CoL ). PAPP 2004: 176 ( type designation and depository, as synonym of B. immutator View in CoL ).

R e m a r k: The first reviser of B. immutator View in CoL is WESMAEL (1838: 16), his series (9

+ 9) of this species is considered as authentic identification and taxonomic statement. The study of the series resulted the establishment of the synonymy of SZÉPLIGETI’ s name B. hemirugosus . The redescription and taxonomic placement of B. immutator will be discussed in a paper of the Bracon species of Europe. B. immutator is a variable species viewing the sculpture of tergites 1-3 and, less variably, the colour of legs and tergites.