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FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON EUPELMINAE (HYMENOPTERA,

CHALCIDOIDEA, EUPELMIDAE) IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA AND
CANARY ISLANDS, INCLUDING DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES

R. R. Askew* and J. L. Nieves-Aldrey**

ABSTRACT
Data on Eupelmus Dalman, additional to that presented in Askew & Nieves-Aldrey
(2000), are given here, including the location of type material of three species described
by C. Bolívar. Eupelmus hungaricus Erdös is transferred to Reikosiella (n. comb.).
Representation of other genera of Eupelminae in the Iberian Peninsula and Canary
Islands is reviewed (Anastatus 9 spp., Arachnophaga 2 spp., Brasema 1 sp.,
Calymmochilus 3 spp., Merostenus 1 sp.) and keys to species are given. Three species
are described as new, Anastatus maculosus Askew, A. magnoculus Askew and
Calymmochilus delphinus Askew.
Key words: Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eupelmidae, Anastatus, Arachnophaga,
Brasema, Calymmochilus, Eupelmus, Merostenus, Reikosiella, new species, Spain,
Canary Islands.

RESUMEN
Nuevas observaciones sobre Eupelminae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea,
Eupelmidae) de la Península Ibérica e Islas Canarias incluyendo
descripciones de nuevas especies
Se aportan datos del género Eupelmus Dalman adicionales a los presentados por
Askew y Nieves-Aldrey (2000), incluyendo la localización de material tipo de tres espe-
cies descritas por C. Bolívar. Se efectúa la transferencia de Eupelmus hungaricus Erdös
al género Reikosiella (n. comb.). Se revisa la representación de otros géneros de
Eupelminae en la Península Ibérica e Islas Canarias: Anastatus 9 spp., Arachnophaga 2
spp., Brasema 1 sp., Calymmochilus 3 spp., Merostenus 1 sp., y se dan claves para la
identificación de las especies. Se describen tres especies nuevas para la ciencia,
Anastatus maculosus Askew, A. magnocolus Askew y Calymmochilus delphinus Askew.
Palabras clave: Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eupelmidae, Anastatus, Arachnophaga,
Brasema, Calymmochilus, Eupelmus, Merostenus, Reikosiella, especies nuevas, España,
Islas Canarias.

* RRA: 5, Beeston Hall Mews, Beeston, Tarporley, Cheshire CW6 9TZ, England.
** JLNA: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biologia Evolutiva, José Gutiérrez Abascal
2, 28006 Madrid, España.
28 ASKEW and NIEVES-ALDREY

Introduction long as broad; gaster in dorsal view with weakly con-

vex sides, broadest about the middle, with ovipositor
The subfamily Eupelminae is represented within somewhat exserted .................................................. 5
the Iberian Peninsula and Canary Islands by the • Head in dorsal view at least 1.7 times as broad as long,
ocelli in an obtuse triangle; white transverse band of
following genera as recognized by Gibson (1995): forewing curved; scutellum about 1.3 times as long as
Anastatus Motschulsky, Arachnophaga Ashmead, broad; gaster in dorsal view narrowed at base and bro-
Brasema Cameron, Calymmochilus Masi, Eupelmus adest behind the middle, with only the pale tips of the
Dalman, Merostenus Walker and Reikosiella ovipositor sheath visible ............................................ 6
Yoshimoto. 5(4) Mesoscutum with depressed area behind anterior
An account has been given previously (Askew median lobe with raised reticulate sculpture but only
scattered hairs; forewing with apex clear; gaster with
& Nieves-Aldrey, 2000) of species of Eupelmus weak microsculpture, partly smooth and shiny; ovipo-
(including Macroneura Walker, 1837) in the sitor sheath nearly 0.6 times length of metatibia ........
region. Here we consider species in the remaining ................................................................oscari (Ruthe)
genera of Eupelminae, treated alphabetically, and (the fully macropterous form has not been found in the
also provide additional information on Eupelmus. regions covered)
The following abbreviations are used: CBP = C. • Mesoscutum with depressed area behind median lobe
without distinct reticulate sculpture and strongly pilo-
Bolívar y Pieltain, JBZ = J. Blasco-Zumeta, JNA = se; forewing distad of white transverse band entirely
J. Nieves-Aldrey, JPV = J. Pujade-Villar, MNCN = infuscate; gaster with fine but relatively strong reticu-
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Madrid), late sculpture, not shiny; ovipositor sheath at most
RGM = R. García Mercet, RRA = R. R. Askew, slightly more than 0.2 times length of metatibia ........
ZMAN = Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam, ........................................................ giraudi (Ruschka)
Nederland. 6(4) Mesoscutum with median lobe more weakly sculptu-
red and shiny than scutellum, almost smooth anteriorly,
depressed area behind median lobe bare; prepectus and
mesopleuron entirely dark and metallic ......................
Anastatus Motschulsky, 1859 .................................................. bifasciatus (Geoffroy)
(the broad-headed form eurycephalus Masi has not been
Four species of Anastatus were recorded from noted in Spain; it has the head in front view 1.4-1.5 times as
Spain by Bolívar (1934) and catalogued by broad as high, contrasting with 1.2-1.3 times in the nomi-
Ceballos (1956): A. bifasciatus (Geoffroy), A. cata- notypical form)
lonicus Bolívar, A. giraudi (Ruschka) (as dolichop- • Mesoscutum with median lobe as strongly sculptured
as scutellum, depressed area behind median lobe pilo-
terus Bolívar) and A. japonicus Ashmead (as se; prepectus and mesopleuron partly testaceous, non-
disparis Ruschka). A fifth species, A. oscari metallic ........................................ japonicus Ashmead
(Ruthe), was listed by Askew et al. (2001) and three 7(3) Forewing with white transverse band strongly constric-
more, A. bernardi Ferrière, A. lichtensteini ted medially, occasionally narrowly divided; antennal
(Ruschka) and A. maculosus Askew are added here. flagellum plus pedicel 1.7-1.8 times as long as breadth
The last, and A. magnoculus Askew from the of head; scrobes separated from anterior ocellus by
slightly more than a diameter of ocellus; ovipositor she-
Canary Islands, are described as new. ath extending beyond last tergite for a distance less than
half length of metabasitarsus ........ catalonicus Bolívar
Key to species of Anastatus Motschulsky from
Spain and the Canary Islands
• Forewing with two well-separated white spots behind
marginal vein (fig. 1), the separation between the two
1 Female ...................................................................... 2 broader than length of stigmal vein; antennal flagellum
• Male ........................................................................ 13 plus pedicel 1.5-1.6 times as long as breadth of head;
2(1) Macropterous, forewing about 2.0 times length of scrobes with upper limit poorly defined but separated
metatibia or longer .................................................... 3 from anterior ocellus by about three diameters of oce-
• Brachypterous, forewing at most only slightly longer llus; ovipositor sheath extending beyond last tergite for
than metatibia ............................................................ 8 a distance about equal to length of metabasitarsus ......
(Doubtful cases will run both ways) .......................................................... maculosus sp. n.
3(2) White transverse band behind marginal vein of fore- 8(2) Ovipositor sheath extending beyond last gastral ter-
wing with edges subparallel, not medially constricted gite by no more than about 0.25 times length of meta-
or divided .................................................................. 4 tibia ...................................................................... 9
• White transverse band behind marginal vein of fore- • Ovipositor sheath extending beyond last gastral tergite
wing medially constricted or completely divided into by more than 0.5 times length of metatibia ............ 11
two subtriangular spots (fig. 1) ................................ 7 9(8) Forewing reaching to about middle of gaster and with
4(3) Head in dorsal view 1.2-1.4 times as broad as long, a straight white transverse band behind marginal
ocelli in a slightly acute triangle; white transverse vein; head in dorsal view 1.2-1.4 times as broad as
band of forewing not curved; scutellum 2.0 times as long; mesoscutum with median lobe distinctly raised
IBERIAN AND CANARY EUPELMINAE 29

and posterior part of mesoscutum between parallel surface hairs; scape either entirely dark-coloured or
sublateral carinae without reticulate sculpture and bicoloured metallic green and yellow; scutellar base
densely pilose; axilla about 1.2 times as long as its narrower ................................................................ 15
basal breadth ................................ giraudi (Ruschka) 15(14) Metatibia bicoloured with basal one-fifth to almost half
• Forewing very short, reaching only to about middle of yellow; mesotibia with outer surface yellow; maxillary
first gastral tergite, reflexed at or beyond the middle palp yellow; scape about twice as long as broad, ovoid,
with basal part clear and apical part uniformly brow- yellow basally and ventrally .................................... 16
nish; head in dorsal view 1.6-1.7 times as broad as • Metatibia without a broad basal yellow band; meso-
long; mesoscutum with median lobe not defined as a tibia almost entirely brown; maxillary palp with at
raised area and surface between outwardly curved least its apical segment brownish; scape sometimes
sublateral carinae reticulate and sparsely pilose; axilla otherwise ............................................................ 17
twice as long as its basal breadth. (Form of thorax and 16(15) Head in dorsal view 1.6-1.7 times as broad as long;
relatively long mesobasitarsal pegs much as in metatibia broadly pale at apex and base ........ giraudi
Arachnophaga species, but the toruli are not entirely • Head in dorsal view 1.75-1.8 times as broad as long;
below the level of the lower orbit) .......................... 10 metatibia with apex dark or only narrowly pale ............
10(9) Vertex much broader than an eye, shiny, with weak and ...................................................................... catalonicus
mainly engraved sculpture and head in front view (fig. 17(15) Scape 2.3-2.5 times as long as broad, paler beneath but
5) with minimum separation of eyes much greater than not marked with yellow; metatibia entirely dark; body
breadth of an eye; ‘thumbnail’ extension to last tergite black with bluish and dark violet tints ............................
of gaster brown and opaque .... lichtensteini (Ruschka) ................................................ bernardi (and ruficaudus)
• Vertex hardly as broad as an eye, dull, with fine, raised • Scape about twice as long as broad, metallic green with
reticulate sculpture and head in front view (fig. 4) with yellow stripe ventrally; metatibia with base and apex
minimum separation of eyes about equal to breadth of usually narrowly pale; body mainly green with copper
an eye; ‘thumbnail’ extension to last tergite of gaster and violet tints ............................................ japonicus
pale, transparent at apex ................ magnoculus sp. n.
11(8) Mesoscutum with median lobe extending over half its
length, with weak reticulate sculpture and moderately
A. bernardi Ferrière, 1954: 15-16
shiny; torulus with lower margin below lower orbit;
gaster dorsally partly smooth and shiny; ovipositor New record for Iberian Peninsula: Barcelona,
sheath (distal to basal constriction) 0.6 times as long as Osona, 900 m Balenya, Mas Mirambell, Malaise
metatibia; forewing with apex clear and a white trans-
verse band behind marginal vein .......... oscari (Ruthe)
trap 17-21.viii.1993, C. Rey, 2 2 ff mm
(MNCN).
• Mesoscutum with median lobe extending over less
Anastatus bernardi is very close to A. ruficau-
than half its length, relatively dull with strigose-reticu-
late sculpture; torulus with lower margin slightly above dus Ferrière, 1954. The latter is a common species
lower orbit; gaster dorsally not shiny, with weakly rai- in south-west France but has not been recorded
sed reticulate sculpture on tergites 3-7; ovipositor she- from Spain. Females of the two can be distinguis-
ath (after basal constriction) 0.7-0.9 times as long as hed by the colour characters given in the above key,
metatibia .................................................................. 12 but the differences are slight and it is not certain
12(11) Forewing without or with a very faintly indicated that two species are involved. Anastatus ruficaudus
transverse white band; ovipositor sheath brown with
tip contrastingly pale; basal gastral tergite brownish ..
has page priority over A. bernardi and is an egg
.......................................................... bernardi Ferrière parasitoid of Tettigoniidae.
• Forewing with a distinct transverse white band behind
apical half of marginal vein; ovipositor sheath reddish
yellow with the tip slightly paler; basal gastral tergite A. bifasciatus (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785: 388)
white ............................................ ruficaudus Ferrière Cynips bifasciatus Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785
[A. ruficaudus has not been found in Spain and Portugal] Bolívar (1934) reported this species from
13(1) Antenna with clava very elongate and with five short Barcelona, Madrid, Pontevedra, Santander and
funicle segments whose combined length is much less
than half that of clava ................................ bifasciatus
Valencia, specimens from the last named province
• Antenna with clava not unusually elongated and with being reared from eggs of Dendrolimus pini (L.)
seven funicle segments (fig. 3) .............................. 14 (Lep., Lasiocampidae). Most of this material is in
14(13) Forewing (cf fig. 1) infumate except at base and apex MNCN with additional specimens from Madrid (El
and with transverse white band behind marginal vein Ventorillo and El Pardo, Malaise trap, 1988 and
divided by infumation; forewing costal cell medially 1991, JLN).
with only a single row of undersurface hairs; antennal Further records: Majorca, ex eggs Charaxes
scape mostly testaceous; scutellum with relatively broad
base occupying more than one-third of the distance bet-
jasius L. (Lep., Nymphalidae) (H. G. Allcard);
ween posterior ends of notauli .......... maculosus sp. n. Barcelona, ex eggs Iphiclides podalirius feisthame-
• Forewing clear; forewing costal cell medially with lii Duponchel (Lep., Papilionidae) (JPV); Huesca,
three or more complete longitudinal rows of under- Jaca (RRA).
30 ASKEW and NIEVES-ALDREY

None of the Spanish specimens examined male A. japonicus was reared in 1997 from an egg
belongs to the form eurycephalus Masi. of Iphiclides podalirius feisthamelii Duponchel
(Lep., Papilionidae) from Barcelona (JPV).
A. catalonicus Bolívar, 1934: 284-286
Bolívar described this species from a single A. lichtensteini (Ruschka, 1921: 301)
female taken on Quercus in Gerona (RGM), but the Eupelmus lichtensteini Ruschka, 1921
f
type cannot be found in MNCN. 1 , Malaise trap,
Anastatus ameleophagus Bernard, 1935: 208-212 (synonymy
in Ferrière, 1954)
El Pardo, Madrid, 1991, JNA (MNCN) is the only
New record for Spain: Cuenca, Motilla del
other Spanish female so far known, but males have
been identified from Huesca, Biescas and Jaca, Palancar, 24-29.v.1987, M. J. Gijswijt, 1 . f
1973, RRA; La Coruña, Porto do Son, Monte Anastatus lichtensteini (as ameleophagus) has
Muño, 1984, JNA; Madrid, El Pardo, 1989, A. been reared from oothecae of Ameles decolor
Garrido (MNCN); Zaragoza, Pina de Ebro, 1991 (Charpentier) and less commonly from A. abjecta
and 1992, JBZ, and from the Canary Islands, La (Cyrillus) and Iris oratoria (L.) in south-east
Palma, Santa Cruz, 1985, A.C. & W.N. Ellis. France (Bernard, 1936).
Ferrière (1954) recorded A. catalonicus as a There are six of Bernard’s original mounts of A.
ameleophagus in the Muséum National d’Histoire
parasitoid in eggs of Iris oratoria (L.) (Mantidae)
in France. Naturelle in Paris bearing 8 ffand 2 mm
, and we
are informed by G. Gibson (pers. com.) that there
A. giraudi (Ruschka, 1921: 298-9) are 3 mm and 6 ff in the Natural History
Museum, London labelled as ‘cotypes’. Bernard
ff mm
Eupelmus giraudi Ruschka, 1921
Anastatus dolichopterus Bolívar, 1934: 290-292 (synonymy (1935) mentioned 7 3 as ‘types’, emer-
suggested in Ferrière, 1954, confirmed in Boucek, 1977) ging in August from oothecae of Ameles collected
All Iberian females of this species seen by us at Fréjus. A female in the Muséum National
belong to the macropterous form, which was des- d’Histoire Naturelle, in good condition, mounted
cribed as dolichopterus by Bolívar from two fema- by itself and agreeing well with Bernard’s descrip-
les from Madrid province (El Escorial and Puerto tion, is labelled ‘Fréjus (Var) èclos viii.34 F.
Somosierra). The specimen from El Escorial was Bernard’, Anastatus ameleophagus f
F. Bernard’
designated ‘tipo’ by Bolívar (1934) and has not and ‘TYPE’ in red print. To avoid possible confu-
been found in MNCN. The other specimen, howe- sion resulting from the split type series, this speci-
ver, is very probably one located in MNCN labelled men is selected as lectotype and has been labelled
only ‘Somosierra, Mercet’; this has now been labe- accordingly.
lled as paratype of Anastatus dolichopterus Bolívar.
Additional records are from Madrid, El Pardo, Anastatus maculosus Askew sp. n. (figs 1-3)
1928, RGM and 1991, JNA (MNCN), Montarco, f
MATERIAL: Holotype . Spain, Almería, Mojácar, ex small
1918 (MNCN), Vellón, 1974, RRA and many spe- mantid ootheca, collected 2.iv.1999 emerged iv.1999, M. D.
Bryan. Deposited in MNCN.
cimens of both sexes from a Malaise trap at 1480m,
f m
Allotype . Same data as holotype.
El Ventorillo, 1988 and 1989, JNA (MNCN, 1
det. A. giraudi by G. Gibson 1991). The species is
f mm
Paratypes. 1 3 ff m
, same data as holotype; 3 1 ,
Spain, Mallorca, Cala Ratjada, ex small mantid ootheca,
known also from the Canary Islands, La Palma, collected 19.xi.1992, M. Boness; 8ff , Greece, Kos, ex small
Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente, 2000, mantid oothecae collected from castle wall 12.iv.1982 emerged
T. Domingo Quero (MNCN). xii.1982, R. R. Askew. Some to be deposited in MNCN, the
Natural History Museum (London) and the National Museums
of Scotland (Edinburgh).
A. japonicus Ashmead, 1904: 153
Anastatus bifasciatus var. disparis Ruschka 1921: 265-267 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. 1 10 f mm , same data as holotype,
(synonymy in Tachikawa, 1965; see Kalina, 1981) f m
damaged; 1 1 , Mallorca, Cala Ravinda, ex mantid oothe-
Anastatus disparis; Bolívar, 1923: 119-121 m
ca, collected 13.xii.1990, M. Boness; 1 , Portugal, Algarve,
Ferragudo, 15.x.1999, M. Boness.
Bolívar (1934) under the name A. disparis cited
records from localities in the provinces of Jaén, FEMALE. Body dark green with coppery tints
Madrid, Salamanca and Segovia. Most of the speci- mainly on face, scutellum and axillae; pronotum,
mens referred to were found in MNCN. More recent prepectus and mesopleuron non-metallic from dark
material has been collected in Granada, Calahonda, brown (holotype) to testaceous; gaster with second
1987, L. Lockey; Madrid, El Pardo, 1991, JNA; tergite brownish, paler than rest of gaster but not
Zaragoza, Pina de Ebro, 1990 and 1992, JBZ. A white; ovipositor sheath light brown. Antenna with
IBERIAN AND CANARY EUPELMINAE 31

scape light brown, pedicel dark with green reflec- Antenna with scape light brown, pedicel and flage-
tions, flagellum dark brown with weak coppery llum darker with clava and last two funicle seg-
reflections. Forewing brown at base of basal cell ments dark brown. Forewing patterned as in
and from proximal end of parastigma to wing apex female. Length 2.2-2.4 mm.
but with two clear spots behind marginal vein (fig. Antenna (fig. 3) with scape excluding radicle
1), pilosity pale on clear spots, dark on brown just over twice as long as broad, narrow in basal
areas; hind wing clear. Legs with femora and tibiae half and expanded in apical half with a flat, smooth
brown, the ventral surfaces rather paler than the area occupying upper half of anterior face; pedicel
dorsal; tarsi with claws and two apical segments plus flagellum 1.8 times as long as breadth of head;
dark brown, basal tarsal segments paler, mesotarsus Fu1 3.3 times as long as pedicel and 3.8 times as
with first three segments brownish white, the ven- long as broad, slightly bent; Fu2 to Fu7 of equal
tral pegs dark brown. Length 2.8-3.1 mm. breadth but progressively shorter, Fu7 subquadrate,
Head in dorsal view 1.7 times as broad as long; all funicle segments with short linear sensillae in
temple 0.4 times length of eye; POL 3 times OOL. irregular transverse rows and extremely short pilo-
Head in front view 1.15 times as broad as high; sity; clava with intersegmental divisions hardly
minimum separation of eyes 0.42 times head bre- visible.
adth; torulus with upper margin about level with Mesonotum with notauli shallow posteriorly;
lower orbit; scrobes separated from anterior ocellus scutellum 1.5 times as long as broad, its base about
by just over three diameters of ocellus, their outer 0.6 times breadth of an axilla. Propodeum medially
edges raised. Antenna with pedicel plus flagellum 0.25 times length of scutellum, median carina
1.6 times as long as breadth of head; scape as long absent, sculpture fine and weakly engraved.
as height of eye; flagellum (fig. 2) clavate, anellus Forewing with pilosity as in female; ratio of
transverse, first funicle segment (Fu1) narrower lengths of costal cell: marginal vein: stigmal vein:
than pedicel and more than 3 times as long as broad, postmarginal vein as 32:20:6:14.
Fu2 to Fu7 progressively broader and shorter; clava Gaster almost or quite as long as mesosoma.
with ventral surface concave in air-dried material
ETYMOLOGY. Maculosus (Latin), spotted. Refers
and appearing obliquely truncate from some angles.
to the white wing spots present in both sexes.
Mesosoma (excluding prothorax) in dorsal view
1.4 times as long as broad; mesoscutum with COMMENTS. Female A. maculosus most closely
median lobe occupying two-thirds of mesoscutal resemble A. catalonicus Bolívar, the two species
length, as strongly reticulate as scutellum and axi- having similar thoracic sculpture with the median
lla, rather dull, the depressed area behind median lobe of the mesoscutum strongly reticulate and rela-
lobe with very weak reticulate sculpture laterally tively dull and the posterior depressed area partly
and smooth and shiny medially, moderately pilose; smooth and shiny. The white transverse band on the
scutellum about 1.5 times as long as broad; meso- forewing of female A. catalonicus is medially cons-
pleuron shiny, the anterior 0.4 faintly reticulate tricted and occasionally completely divided by a
with white and slightly flattened pilosity, poste- narrow infuscate ‘bridge’, but in A. maculosus the
riorly finely striate. Legs with apex of protibia with two white spots derived from the transverse band are
3-4 small spines in front; mesotarsal segments ven- always well-separated. Female A. maculosus has a
trally with two rows of brown, darker-tipped pegs longer ovipositor sheath and shorter antennal scrobe
(holotype has 11-12 pegs in each row on basitarsus, than A. catalonicus, as described in the key, and the
5 on T2, 3-4 on T3, 1 on T4). antennal toruli are slightly higher on the face. Males
Forewing (fig. 1) densely pilose except dorsal of the two species are very distinct, the forewing of
half of basal cell, but hairs white and difficult to see A. maculosus being patterned as in the female but
on clear spots; ratio of lengths of costal cell: margi- that of A. catalonicus being clear; in addition, the
nal vein: stigmal vein: postmarginal vein as antennal scape, maxillary palp and metatibia of A.
32:27:5:13. maculosus are brownish whilst these parts in A. cata-
Gaster excluding ovipositor sheath longer than lonicus are more or less marked with yellow.
mesosoma (42:32), 2.3 times as long as broad, bro- BIOLOGY. Anastatus maculosus is a parasitoid in
adest behind middle; ovipositor sheath exserted for oothecae of Mantidae. All reared specimens seen
a distance about 0.37 times length of metatibia. have emerged from similar small (about 15 mm
MALE. Head and mesosoma predominantly vio- long) oothecae which are probably those of Ameles.
let with some dark green reflections on lower face. Bernard (1936) found A. ameleophagus (= A. lich-
32 ASKEW and NIEVES-ALDREY

Figs. 1-7.— 1) Anastatus maculosus sp. nov., f left forewing; 2) A. maculosus, f right antenna, inner aspect; 3) A. maculosus,
m left antenna, outer aspect; 4) A. magnoculus sp. nov., f head in frontal view with right antenna; 5) A. lichtensteini, f head in
frontal view (lectotype of A. ameleophagus Bernard); 6) Calymmochilus delphinus sp. nov., f head in frontal view with right
antenna; 7) C. dispar, f clypeus.

Figs. 1-7.— 1) Anastatus maculosus sp. nov., f ala anterior izquierda; 2) A. maculosus,f antena derecha, aspecto interior; 3)
A. maculosus, m antena izquierda, aspecto exterior; 4) A. magnoculus sp. nov.,f cabeza en visión frontal con antena derecha;
f
5) A. lichtensteini, cabeza en visión frontal (lectotipo de A. ameleophagus Bernard); 6) Calymmochilus delphinus sp. nov., f
cabeza en visión frontal con antena derecha; 7) C. dispar, f clípeo.
IBERIAN AND CANARY EUPELMINAE 33

tensteini) and Arachnophaga picardi (Bernard) as Mesosoma (excluding pronotum) in dorsal

parasitoids in oothecae of Ameles spp. (mainly A. view 1.5 times as long as broad; mesoscutum wit-
decolor) near Fréjus and Nice, France, but made no hout a raised median lobe anteriorly, its entire sur-
mention of anything resembling A. maculosus. face between the curved sublateral carinae with
raised reticulation, fine medially but quite coarse
at the sides, and sparse pilosity; scutellum 1.7
Anastatus magnoculus Askew sp. n. (fig. 4) times as long as broad; mesopleuron densely, lon-
MATERIAL: Holotype f . Canary Islands, Tenerife, Las gitudinally striate in posterior half, anteriorly shiny
Cañadas, Malaise trap, 17.viii.1996, A. Camacho. Depository with hardly discernible sculpture and fine hairs.
MNCN.
Protibia with 6 small,dark spines at apex; mesofe-
FEMALE. Head dark green with violet tints on mur flattened (as is normal in Anastatus); mesotar-
vertex and gena; mesosoma of various shades of sal segments ventrally with two rows of rather
brown, the ventral surface lighter than the dorsal, long, pale but dark-tipped pegs, the basitarsus with
scutellum with very weak violet reflections; gas- 13 in anterior row, 15 in posterior row, T2 with 5,
ter white at base, elsewhere dark brown with T3 with 2, T4 with 1 in each row; metatarsus
weak violet reflections; ‘thumbnail’ extension of notably thin, narrower than protarsus.
last tergite entirely brown; ovipositor sheath Brachypterous, forewing reaching only to pos-
brown with apical one-third or so pale. Antenna terior half of first gastral tergite, reflexed
with scape light brown, flagellum dark brown. upwards at about middle, venation not visible,
Forewing with basal half clear, apical part distal apex rounded.
to flexure brown. Legs brown, metatibia the dar- Gaster about as long as rest of body; last tergi-
kest; basal four segments of mesotarsus whitish; te with ‘thumbnail’ extension strongly produced,
basal two segments of metatarsus white. Length about as long as basal breadth and overlying much
3.0 mm. of ovipositor sheath so that in dorsal view only the
Head in dorsal view 1.65 times as broad as pale apex of the latter is visible; ovipositor sheath
long; temple 0.4 times length of eye; POL about about half as long as metatibia.
2.5 times OOL, posterior ocellus separated from MALE. Unknown.
orbit by about its diameter; eye relatively large,
its breadth about 1.15 times that of vertex; vertex ETYMOLOGY. Magnus (Latin), large and oculus
dull with raised reticulate sculpture. Head in front (Latin), eye. Refers to the relatively large eyes.
view (fig. 4) only slightly broader than high; toru- COMMENTS. Anastatus magnoculus is closely
lus with centre about level with lower orbit, inter- related to A. lichtensteini, females of both species
torular prominence relatively large, strongly being brachypterous and without a raised median
reticulate and rounded, without a median carina; lobe on the mesoscutum. They may be distinguis-
scrobes finely reticulate, separated from anterior hed by the characters given in the key (couplet
ocellus by about two diameters of ocellus. 10); also, in A. lichtensteini a posterior ocellus is
Antenna (fig. 4) with pedicel plus flagellum 1.9 separated from the adjacent orbit by about two
times breadth of head (left antenna missing after ocellar diameters (one in magnoculus), the flage-
Fu3); scape slightly longer than height of eye llum is relatively shorter with Fu7 slightly trans-
(12:11); flagellum expanding to apex of Fu3, the- verse (Fu7 slightly elongate in magnoculus), the
reafter of constant width to clava; pedicel in dor- intertorular prominence has a very fine median
sal view twice as long as broad; anellus about 1.5 carina (rounded in magnoculus) and the metatar-
times as broad as long; funicle segments all of sus is as broad as the protarsus (thinner than pro-
approximately similar length; anellus plus Fu1 tarsus in magnoculus).
1.4 times as long as pedicel; Fu1 at base as broad
as pedicel, slightly broader at apex, 2.4 times as BIOLOGY. Host unknown but A. magnoculus,
long as apical breadth; Fu2 1.8 times as long as like A. lichtensteini, is probably a parasitoid in oot-
broad; Fu3 1.3 times as long as broad at apex, 2.5 hecae of Mantidae.
times as broad as pedicel; Fu4-Fu7 of approxima-
tely similar dimensions, only slightly longer than A. oscari (Ruthe, 1859: 124)
broad; clava with entire ventral (outer) face flat- Eupelmus oscari Ruthe, 1859
tened, in profile tapering to a point; vestiture of Recorded from Spain by Askew et al. (2001) on
flagellum consisting of dense and very short, the basis of one female from Zaragoza, Pina de
adpressed hairs. Ebro, 21.vii.1991, JBZ.
34 ASKEW and NIEVES-ALDREY

Arachnophaga Ashmead, 1896 reared from oothecae of Ameles decolor collected at

Mercetina Bolívar, 1933 (synonymy in Gibson, 1995) Fréjus and Nice. The Muséum National d’Histoire
The African and European species previously Naturelle (Paris) has just a single Bernard specimen;
known under Mercetina are all assigned to this has been examined. It is labelled as emerging on
Arachnophaga subgenus Parasolindenia Brues, 3.x.1936 from an ootheca of Empusa collected at
1907 by Gibson (1995). Females are brachypterous Banyuls [Pyrénées Orientales] and is not, therefore,
and are characterized by the toruli being placed enti- from the type series (although having a red printed
rely below the lower orbit, elongated tegulae which ‘TYPE’ label). There are 2 ff m 1 labelled as
are much longer than the prepectus, relatively long ‘cotypes’ in the Natural History Museum (London)
ventral mesotarsal pegs and striate scutellum. (G. Gibson pers. com.).
New records for Spain: 2 ff m 1 , Sevilla,
Key to females of species of Arachnophaga Ashmead south-east, 1986, ex mantid ootheca, M. Boness;
from Spain 6ff mm 3 , Jaén, Coto nacional de Cazoria (1800
1. Scutellum with median longitudinal crest which bears a m), ex Ameles ?spallanzania ootheca with
line of long, dark brown setae; metacoxa with outer face Iridophagus (Torymidae) collected ix.1976 emer-
bare (ventrally pilose); ovipositor sheath about 0.5 times ged viii.1977, M. J. Morgan.
as long as metatibia ...................... matritensis (Bolívar)
• Scutellum medially rather flat without a longitudinal line MALE. Body entirely dark blue-green with vio-
of dark setae, but with scattered, short, white setae; meta- let tints on mesoscutum and scutellum; femora
coxa with outer face densely adorned with short, white dark, metallic blue-green; tibiae dark and weakly
hairs; ovipositor sheath 0.7-0.8 times as long as metatibia metallic; protarsus light brown, mesotarsus with T4
.............................................................. picardi (Bernard) and T5 brown, otherwise whitish, metatarsus with
T3-T5 brown, T2 brown dorsally, T1 and ventral
The male of A. picardi is redescribed below; part of T2 whitish. Wings clear. Length 2.0 mm.
that of A. matritensis is not certainly known but an Face with lower edge of torulus slightly above
unidentified male eupelmid, which might be A. lower orbit, lower face with short, white hairs
matritensis, is also discussed below. which are very slightly flattened; genal setae unmo-
dified. Antenna with scape linear, about four times
A. matritensis (Bolívar, 1933: 208-209)
Mercetina matritensis Bolívar, 1933 as long as broad; pedicel ventrally with one long
seta; flagellum compact, filiform, Fu1 about 2.7
The unique specimen on which Bolívar based times as long as broad and 3.0 times as long as
his description of Mercetina and M. matritensis pedicel, funicle segments with very short pilosity
was not found in MNCN. It was caught by Bolívar and several irregular transverse rows of short sensi-
on 6.vi.1918 at Vaciamadrid (Madrid). A second llae. Mandible tridentate.
Spanish example from Monegros (Zaragoza), cap- Propodeum without median carina, medially
tured in a yellow tray in 1990 (JBZ), was recorded faintly reticulate, almost smooth. Metacoxa with a
by Askew et al. (2001), and three further female few hairs on dorsal surface, outer surface bare.
examples in ZMAN (Amsterdam) are from Cuenca, Forewing with basal cell pilose and speculum
Motilla del Palancar, 24-29-v.1987, M. J. Gijswijt; not developed, the pilosity distad of basal vein rat-
Soria, El Burgo de Osma on Juniperus thurifera, her sparse but absent only immediately behind
21-25.v.1990, M. J. Gijswijt, and the Canary parastigma. Ratio of lengths of costal cell: marginal
Islands, Gran Canaria, Ayaguares 9 km. NNW of vein: stigmal vein; postmarginal vein as 15:8:4:6.
Maspalomas, 6.iv.1987, A. C. & W. N. Ellis, A. M. Gibson (1995) gave details of male
J. & R. T. Simon Thomas. Arachnophaga, emphasising their morphological
diversity. The important features of male A. picardi
A. picardi (Bernard, 1936: 71-72) would seem to be the rather high position of the
Anastatus picardi Bernard, 1936
antennal toruli, with the ventral margin above the
Described originally in Anastatus and later lower orbit (usually below), only a single long ven-
redescribed and transferred to Mercetina by tral seta on the pedicel and bare outer face of the
Ferrière (1954), this species was hitherto appa- metacoxa.
rently known only from the south of France where
it had been reared from oothecae of Mantidae
(Ameles, Iris, Empusa) (Ferrière, 1954). Arachnophaga? sp. indet.
After his original description of A. picardi, Known only from males collected in Malaise
Bernard (1936) noted having 13 8 ‘types’ ff mm traps and assigned to Arachnophaga because of
IBERIAN AND CANARY EUPELMINAE 35

their similarity to male A. picardi. They are quite Brasema Cameron, 1884
frequent in Spain, and are probably associated with Cerambycobius Ashmead, 1896 (synonymy in Gibson, 1995)
brachypterous females because no matching fema-
les have been captured with the males in Malaise Represented in Spain by a single known species.
traps. They possibly represent the unknown male of
A. matritensis. B. ephedricola Askew, 1998: 814-815

Spain: Granada, Calahonda, 2 mm vii.1987,

An ectoparasitoid in galls of Eurytoma gallephe-
1m vii.1988, L. Lockey; Madrid, El Ventorillo,
drae Askew (Eurytomidae) on Ephedra nebroden-
12mm vii.1991, A. Garrido; Zaragoza, Pina de
sis. The species was discovered in Zaragoza, Sierra
m
Ebro, 1 x.1990, 5 mm v.1991, 23 mmvi.1991,
de Alcubierre near Retuerta de Pina, and is descri-
16mm vii.1991, 34mm viii.1991, 21 mm bed, with an account of its biology, in Askew &
Blasco-Zumeta (1998).
1x.1991, all JBZ.
MALE. Body blue-green to green with violet
tints most evident in larger specimens; femora Calymmochilus Masi, 1919
and tibiae dark, metallic, with tibio-femoral Three of four European species of Calym-
joints narrowly yellowish, as also is apex of pro- mochilus, one of which is described as new below,
tibia; tarsi brown with T1-T3 of mesotarsus and occur in Spain.
T1 and T2 of metatarsus white ventrally. Wings
clear with pilosity rather pale and faint. Length Key to Spanish species of Calymmochilus
0.8-2.0 mm.
1 Females ........................................................................ 2
Lower face with short white hairs which are
slightly flattened in larger specimens; no modi- • Males ............................................................................ 4
2(1) Brachypterous, forewing just reaching to base of gaster,
fied genal setae. Antennal torulus with lower edge truncate with apical margin slightly concave; mandible
somewhat below lower orbit; scape 3.2-3.4 times over three times as long as broad, arcuate with a small
as long as broad; pedicel ventrally with two or subapical tooth; head in dorsal view with frons relatively
three long setae; flagellum compact, filiform, shallowly excavated; scape mainly pale; larger, length 3.0-
slightly tapering; F1 about 2.7 times as long as 4.6 mm .................................. dispar Boucek & Andriescu
broad and 2.7 times as long as pedicel; funicle • Macropterous; mandible at most about 2.1 times as long as
broad with subapical tooth not or hardly developed; head in
segments with very short pilosity and several irre- dorsal view with frons more deeply excavated; scape some-
gular transverse rows of short sensillae. Mandible times infuscate; smaller, length up to about 2.3 mm ........ 3
tridentate. 3(2) Legs with meso- and metacoxae dark, femora and tibiae
Thorax ventrally with rather dense, white pilo- mostly brownish; scape and gaster dark; forewing with
sity; propodeum with median carina sometimes brown discal cloud; gaster in dorsal view 2.7 times as
finely and faintly indicated, medially faintly reticu- long as broad, distinctly longer than rest of body; body
length 2.0 mm or more .................. subnubilus (Walker)
late, almost smooth. Metacoxa with hairs on dorsal • Legs (including coxae) yellow; scape and posterior half
surface to base, outer surface bare. of gastral dorsum yellow, anterior half of gaster yellowish
Forewing basal cell pilose; speculum absent brown, a brown stripe runs from cercus to just before
although hairs behind parastigma are white and apex; forewing discally faintly yellow; gaster in dorsal
inconspicuous giving the illusion of a speculum. view 1.8 times as long as broad, about as long as rest of
Ratio of lengths of costal cell: marginal vein: body; body length 1.6-1.8 mm .............. delphinus sp. n.
4(1) Forewing stigma relatively narrow, separated from post-
stigmal vein: postmarginal vein as 32:16:8:11; marginal vein by more than twice its height and with uncus
stigma rather large, fully twice as long as broad at least as long as height; head and mesosoma dorsally dark
and separated from postmarginal vein by twice brown with violet tints; gaster less strongly compressed;
its height. head in dorsal view with eyes separated by about 2.5 times
breadth of an eye; antenna with Fu1 slightly less than 3.0
COMMENTS. Similar to the male of A. picardi but times as long as broad ............ subnubilus and delphinus
differing in having the toruli lower, their ventral • Forewing stigma larger, rounded, separated from post-
edges below the level of the lower margins of the marginal vein by less than twice its height and with uncus
eyes, the scape broader, wings with paler venation shorter than height; head and mesosoma dorsally black
with faint greenish to bronze (not violet) tints; gaster
and indistinct pilosity. The stigma is separated from strongly compressed (in air-dried specimens); head in
the postmarginal vein by 2.0 times its height whe- dorsal view with eyes separated by about 3.5 times bre-
reas in A. picardi it is separated by 2.5 times its adth of an eye; antenna with funicle segments longer, Fu1
height. more than 3.0 times as long as broad .................. dispar
36 ASKEW and NIEVES-ALDREY

Calymmochilus delphinus Askew sp. n. (fig. 6) Forewing not quite reaching apex of gaster,
MATERIAL: All specimens Spain, Granada, Calahonda, Malaise evenly pilose without a speculum, the hairs short
trap, vii.1987, vii.1988 or vii.1989, L. Lockey. and dense; relative lengths of costal cell: marginal
f
Holotype . Collected 1989. Deposited in MNCN. vein: stigmal vein: postmarginal vein as
m
Allotype . Collected 1988. Deposited in MNCN. 36:24:8:15; submarginal vein with proximal half
f mm
Paratypes. 1 4 ff
collected in 1988, 2 collected in thicker than distal half, the wing slightly flexed at
1989. junction of the two thicknesses.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. 3 mm m mm
1987, 1 1988, 3 1989. Gaster ovate, about 1.8 times as long as broad,
its apex bluntly rounded; T7 completely concealing
FEMALE. Head and mesosoma black with violet
ovipositor in dorsal view.
tints (strongest on face), supraclypeal area slightly
green; antenna brown with scape yellow. Forewing MALE. Darker than female; scape, legs and gas-
weakly yellowish with a brown mark proximally in ter mostly brown to black; wings clear. Length 0.8-
basal and costal cells; venation yellow except for 1.2 mm.
brown proximal half of submarginal vein. Legs uni-
ETYMOLOGY. Delphinus (Latin), a dolphin, to
formly yellow, only tarsal claws brown. Gaster dor-
which the female gaster bears a fanciful resem-
sally brownish in basal half, apical half yellow with
blance.
a brown stripe running from cercus almost to apex
of gaster, ventral surface mostly yellow. Length COMMENTS. Females of C. delphinus and C. sub-
1.6-1.8 mm. nubilus are readily distinguished on colour charac-
Head in dorsal view almost twice as broad as ters, as indicated in the key, although
long (55:29), frons deeply excavated, temple about morphologically they are close. No reliable charac-
0.1 times length of eye; POL:OOL as 5:4. Head in ter has been found to separate males of these two
front view (fig. 6) slightly broader than high species, although characters given in the key
(13:12); scrobal area strongly excavated but not (above) to distinguish them from male C. dispar
clearly defined laterally; face receding below toru- tend to be present in a more extreme form in C.
li, torulus far below eye and only about one diame- delphinus than in C. subnubilus.
ter above level of base of mandible; clypeus
semicircularly protruding with a reflexed rim C. dispar Boucek & Andriescu, 1967: 234-238
which is crossed by a number of fine ridges, each Boucek (1977) recorded C. dispar from Spain
ridge ending on the margin of the clypeus as a and two males from Jaén, 1974, RRA, were identi-
minute tooth —teeth much smaller (fig. 6) than in fied as C. dispar by Boucek in 1976. Further records
C. dispar (fig. 7)—. Mandible about twice as long f
are Alicante, Moraira, 1 1989, R. Wahis (ZMAN);
as basal breadth with a single slightly curved, pale m
Barcelona, 1 undated, RGM (MNCN); Málaga,
tooth. Antenna (fig. 6) with pedicel plus flagellum
1.4 times breadth of head; scape 1.2 times as long
m
Alfarnatejo, 1 1998, RRA and Ronda, 1 1994, m
M. J. Gijswijt (ZMAN); Madrid, Manzanares el
as an eye; pedicel almost 3.0 times as long as
broad; anellus slightly longer than broad; Fu1 plus
m
Real, 1 1995, F. M. Fontal (MNCN).
anellus shorter and narrower than pedicel; Fu1
about twice as long as broad, the following seg- C. subnubilus (Walker, 1872: 81)
Eupelmus subnubilus Walker, 1872
ments subequal in length but progressively broade- Calymmochilus atratus Masi, 1919 (synonymized in Boucek,
ning, Fu7 about 1.4 times as long as broad and 1970)
broader than pedicel; clava almost as long as com-
bined Fu4-Fu7, 3.1 times as long as broad, apically Newly recorded for Spain (Zaragoza) in Askew
et al. (2001). Additional records: Burgos, Sierra
pointed with a pad of micropilosity on inner faces
de la Demanda, Pineda de la Sierra, 1 f
of C2 and C3.
Mesosoma in dried material usually flexed at 30.ix.1994, RRA; Jaén, 1 f
x.1916, RGM
(MNCN) (det. subnubilus by Boucek in 1984);
scuto-scutellar suture; scutellum and axillae in
Madrid, El Pardo (El Goloso), Malaise trap, 1 f
same plane and strongly reticulate, dull; mesopleu-
m
v.1991, 1 ix.1991, JNA (MNCN); El Ventorillo,
ron with raised and moderately coarse reticulate
Malaise trap, 1 fx.1989, 1 f vi.1990 (det. G.
sculpture. Mesotarsus with a double row of brow-
nish yellow pegs on ventral surfaces of 3 or 4 pro- Gibson, 1991), JNA; 2 mm 13.vii.1991, A.
ximal segments; mesotibial spur relatively short, Garrido (all MNCN).
not twice as long as apical breadth of tibia. New record for the Canary Islands: La Palma,
Parque Nacional de la Caldera de Taburiente, on
IBERIAN AND CANARY EUPELMINAE 37

Chaemocytisus, 1 f
25.ix.1999, M. Sanchez ‘El Escorial, G. Mercet, Zarzalejo 21.6.24’ has now
Ruiz. From the same locality 7 mm been found in the same collection. The holotype
remains missing.
Calymmochilus, which are probably conspecific
with the above female, were captured in a
Malaise trap, viii and ix.1999, T. Domingo E. matranus Erdös, 1947
Eupelmus splendens Bolívar, 1933 (homonym of E. splendens
Quero. Giraud, 1871)
The holotype female of E. splendens Bolívar has
Eupelmus Dalman, 1820 now been located in MNCN. It is labelled ‘Loeches,
Mercet’ and ‘Eupelmus splendens Bolívar Holotype
Since our paper on Eupelmus (Askew & Nieves- det. Z. Boucek 1976’.
Aldrey, 2000), we have gathered further informa-
tion on some Spanish species and located type E. microzonus Förster, 1860
material of Bolívar’s species Eupelmus capillaris
(see under E. fuscipennis), E. splendens (under E. Newly recorded from the Canary Islands (La
matranus) and E. valentinus Bolívar (under E. tes- Gomera) by Koponen & Askew (2002).
taceiventris).
E. rostratus Ruschka, 1921
E. annulatus Nees, 1834 Two females collected Madrid, El Pardo (El
New provincial record: Ávila, Peguerinos, Goloso), Malaise trap, ix.1991, Nieves & Rey, may
1994, JNA (MNCN). be E. rostratus but have extensively testaceous
bodies and the forewings are marked with two
E. atropurpureus Dalman, 1820 separate transverse infuscate bands, one behind the
parastigma and basal half of the marginal vein, the
New provincial record: La Coruña, Puerto del other behind the postmarginal and apical quarter of
Son, 1994, JNA (MNCN). the marginal veins. More material is required to
firmly establish their identity.
E. fuscipennis Förster, 1860
Eupelmus capillaris Bolívar, 1933 was synony- E. testaceiventris (Motschulsky, 1863)
mized under E. fuscipennis by Askew & Nieves- Eupelmus valentinus Bolívar, 1933 (synonymy in Askew &
Aldrey (2000), although type material of capillaris Nieves-Aldrey, 2000)
had not been examined. Subsequently two conspe- A female labelled ‘Betera, Valencia, Moroder’
cific females, both collected from Madrid, El Pardo and ‘Holotype E. valentinus det. Z. Boucek 1993’ is
by RGM, were located in MNCN. One of these spe- in MNCN.
cimens is labelled holotype Eupelmus capillaris,
the other paratype E. capillaris, by Boucek 1976. E. (Macroneura) aseculatus Kalina, 1981
Compared to French material of E. fuscipennis, A female reared from a gall of Andricus quer-
these specimens are rather small and have clear cusradicis (Fabricius) sex. gen. (Hym., Cynipidae),
wings, but they are considered to lie within the Madrid, Casa de Campo, 1983, JNA (MNCN)
range of variation of E. fuscipennis. represents a new host record for Spain.
E. hungaricus Erdös, 1959
E. (M.) maculatus (Ferrière, 1954)
The species treated under Eupelmus hungaricus
by Askew & Nieves-Aldrey (2000) is newly trans- f
Second record for Spain: 1 , Barcelona,
Calella de Costa, 1971, collected and determined Z.
ferred to the genus Reikosiella (see below). Boucek (MNCN).
E. juniperinus Bolívar, 1933
The type series of E. juniperinus consists of four E. (M.) seculatus (Ferrière, 1954)
females from Madrid, Zarzalejo on Juniperus oxy- f
New host records: 1 ex gall Plagiotrochus
cedrus, with one of the paratypes collected australis (Mayr) sex. gen. (Hym., Cynipidae) on
27.vi.1924 by RGM. All four specimens were sta- Quercus ilex, Madrid, Robledo de Chavela, 1986,
ted to be in MNCN (Bolívar, 1933). The location of JNA (MNCN); 1 f ex gall P. quercusilicis
two paratypes in MNCN was reported by Askew & (Fabricius) sex. gen., Salamanca, La Flecha, 1982,
Nieves-Aldrey (2000) and a third paratype labelled JNA (MNCN).
38 ASKEW and NIEVES-ALDREY

Merostenus Walker, 1837 ASHMEAD, W. H., 1904. Descriptions of new Hymenop-

tera from Japan. II. Journal of the New York
M. excavatus (Dalman, 1820: 382) Entomological Society, 12: 146-165.
Eupelmus excavatus Dalman, 1820
m
New record for Spain: 1 , Guipúzcoa, San
ASKEW, R. R. & BLASCO-ZUMETA, J., 1998. Insects asso-
ciated with galls of a new species of Eurytomidae
Sebastian, Orio, 12.ix.1964, RRA. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) on Ephedra nebroden-
Gibson (1995) described the male of M. excava- sis in Spain. Journal of Natural History, 32: 805-821.
tus. The species is known as a parasitoid of ASKEW, R. R., BLASCO-ZUMETA, J. & PUJADE-VILLAR, J.,
Phytonomus variabilis Herbst (Col., Curculio- 2001. Chalcidoidea y Mymarommatoidea (Hyme-
nidae) but is certainly polyphagous (Boucek, 1977). noptera) de un sabinar de Juniperus thurifera L. en
Los Monegros, Zaragoza. Monografias de la
Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 4: 1-76.
Reikosiella Yoshimoto, 1969 ASKEW, R. R. & NIEVES-ALDREY, J. L., 2000. The genus
Eupelmus Dalman, 1820 (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea,
R. hungarica (Erdös, 1959: 327-330) new combination Eupelmidae) in peninsular Spain and the Canary
The identification and resulting new combina- Islands, with taxonomic notes and descriptions of new
tion was based on examination of the holotype species. Graellsia, 56: 49-61.
female of Eupelmus hungaricus Erdös in the BÁEZ, M. & ASKEW, R. R., 1999. New records of
Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, by Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from the Canary
G. Gibson (pers. com.). Islands. Boletín de la Asociación Española de
This is a distinctive eupelmid with white second Entomología, 23: 65-82.
to fifth funicle segments. A single female from BERNARD, F., 1935. Un nouvel Hyménoptère parasite des
Zaragoza was reported by us in 2000 (under the name oothèques de Mantides: Anastatus ameleophagus n.
Eupelmus hungaricus), and another Spanish female sp. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France, 60:
from Madrid, El Ventorillo, Malaise trap, 9- 208-212.
16.vi.1989, JNA (MNCN) has since been found. This BERNARD, F., 1936. Morphologie et comportement des
latter specimen is labelled ‘Reikosiella (Hirticauda) Anastatus parasites d’oothèques de Mantides.
hungarica det. G. Gibson’. Hirticauda Boucek, 1988 Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 41:
is considered a subgenus of Reikosiella Yoshimoto, 69-75.
1969 by Gibson (1995), but no reference is made to BOLÍVAR Y PIELTAIN, C., 1923. Estudios sobre Calcídidos
E. hungaricus in the latter work. de la Familia Eupélmidos. Revista de Fitopatología,
A third female specimen, Jaén, Carolina, 1: 114-122.
20.iv.2002, M. J. Gijswijt (ZMAN) has been seen. BOLÍVAR Y PIELTAIN, C., 1933. Estudio de algunos
Eupélmidos nuevos de España (Hym. Chalc.). Eos,
9: 195-209.
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BOLÍVAR Y PIELTAIN, C., 1934. Estudio monográfico de
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