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8a. Itoplectis curticauda curticauda (Kriechbaumer) 



Pimpla curticauda Kriechbaumer, 1887, Ent. Nachr., vol. 13, p. 120; 9 • Type: 

 9, near Munich (?Munich). 



Black. Flagellum light reddish brown, fuscous above; palpi dark 

 brown; tegula and hind corner of pronotum pale yellow to fulvous; 

 front leg fulvous, its coxa more or less fuscous and its femur apically 

 in front and its tibia and tarsus more or less pale fulvous or yellowish; 

 middle leg fulvous, its tibia often with a faint subbasal yellowish ring; 

 hind coxa, trochanters, and femur fulvous, the hind femur very faintly 

 infuscate at apex; hind tibia blackish brown, with a premedian white 

 band; hind tarsus fuscous, the basal 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, and 0.3 of the first 

 through fourth segments respectively, whitish, the basal 0.3 of the 

 fifth segment dirty whitish. 



Described from one male and six females from four localities in 

 Germany. This subspecies seems to be widespread in Europe, but 

 usually scarce. 



8b. Itoplectis curticauda brevacus Townes, new status 



Figure 326,d 



Itoplectis brevacus Townes, 1940, Ann. Ent. Soc. America, vol. 33, p. 315; 9 . 

 Type: 9, Bar Harbor, Maine (Washington). 



Black. Flagellum light reddish brown below; palpi dark brown; 

 tegula and hind corner of pronotum white; front leg fulvous, its coxa 

 more or less infuscate; middle coxa, trochanter, and femur fulvous, 

 the femur whitish at extreme apex; middle tibia fulvous, with a sub- 

 basal whitish band, basad of the band usually a little infuscate; mid- 

 dle tarsus fulvous, the basal 0.7, 0.6, and 0.3 of first through third 

 segments respectively, whitish; hind coxa, trochanters, and femur 

 fulvous, the femur rather broadly infuscate at apex ; hind tibia black- 

 ish, with a premedian white band; hind tarsus blackish, the basal 



Figure 134. — Localities for 

 Itoplectis curticauda brev- 

 acus. 



