Bracon (Glabrobracon) nigriventris WESMAEL

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 (1), pp. 1741-1837 : 1789-1790

Bracon (Glabrobracon) nigriventris WESMAEL

Braco nigriventris WESMAEL 1838: 36 , type locality: "environs de Bruxelles " ( Belgium), female holotype in Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles; examined. - SHENEFELT 1978: 1641 (literature up to 1974). TOBIAS 1986: 147 (in key). TOBIAS & BELOKOBYLSKIJ 2000: 162 (in key).

Bracon indubius SZÉPLIGETI 1901a: 264 (in key), 278 (description) (in Hungarian), 1904 (1901): 178 (in key), 182 (description) (in German), type locality: " Budapest " ( Hungary), type series partim: two female paralectotypes in Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest; examined. - SHENEFELT 1978: 1642 (as B. nigriventris var. indubius , literature up to 1969). TOBIAS 1986: 147 (in key as synonym of B. nigriventris ). PAPP 2004: 176 (type designation and depository, type series identical with six species).

Bracon subornatus SZÉPLIGETI 1901a: 263 (in key), 277 (description) (in Hungarian), 1904 (1901): 175 (in key), 180 (description) (in German), type locality: "Topliec" or "Toplice" (=Maroshévíz, Romania: Transylvania, before 1920 Hungary), female lectotype in Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest; examined. - PAPP 1969: 322 (in key) 329 (synonymization with B. nigriventris ). SHENEFELT 1978: 1642 (as synonym of B. nigriventris after PAPP l.c., literature up to 1969). TOBIAS 1986: not mentioned. PAPP 2004: 181 (type designation and depository, as valid species).

R e m a r k: At present I am on the opinion that the names B. indubius (partim) and B. subornatus refer to WESMAEL’ s B. nigriventris . A future investigation will decide the identity or the validity of B. subornatus as true species.