Bracon (Glabrobracon) immutator NEES

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 : 1786

Bracon (Glabrobracon) immutator NEES

Bracon immutator NEES 1834: 76 , 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 (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 ). PAPP 2004: 176 (type designation and depository, as synonym of B. immutator ).

R e m a r k: The first reviser of B. immutator 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.