684 M. W. R. de V. GRAHAM 



Meraporus rambouseki Boucek 



Meraporus rambouseki Boucek, 1961 : 92-93, $. 



Type material. Holotype $, Bulgaria, Midzor, Stara Planina-mountains, i.ix.1923 

 (F. Rambousek), in Narodni Museum, Prague (Cat. no. 2974). 



Bulgaria. 

 Biology. Unknown. 



PEGOPUS Forster 



Prosopon Walker, 1837 : 356. Type-species : P. montanum Walker, by monotypy [pre-occupied 



by Prosopon Meyer, 1835]. 

 Prosopon Walker ; Forster, 1856 : 47, 51. 



Pegopus Forster, 1856 : 145 [n. n. for Prosopon Walker nee Meyer]. 

 Arthrolytus sect. C ; Thomson, 1878 : 160. 

 Pegopus Forster ; Ashmead, 1904 : 285 [<J only]. 

 Pegopus Forster ; Schmiedeknecht, 1909 : 157, 168 [g only]. 

 Meraporus Walker ; Kurdjumov, 191 3 : 7, 13 [ex parte]. 

 Pegopus Forster ; Graham, 19566 : 252-254. 

 Pegopus Forster ; Peck et al., 1964 : 48, 56. 



Prosopon was described originally in the neighbourhood of some genera of 

 Cleonymidae and Eupelmidae, being no doubt placed there because of the expanded 

 mid tibiae and tarsi of the male. Forster (1856) and Ashmead (1904) included it in 

 Cleonymidae. Thomson (1878) correctly placed the type-species in Pteromalinae, 

 although he did not recognize the generic name. Ashmead (1904) and 

 Schmiedeknecht (1909) continued to place Pegopus (=Prosopon) in Cleonymidae, 

 and incorrectly attributed the characters of the modified mid legs to the female as 

 well as the male. Graham (19566 : 254) pointed out that Pegopus was very close 

 to Meraporus. These two genera are in fact so close that they might eventually 

 be united. 



Key to European Species 

 (Females) 



1 Fore wing with marginal vein 1-65 to 1-9 times as long as the stigmal vein ; distal 

 third to half of basal cell pilose. Antennae with scape distinctly shorter than an 

 eye ; flagellum stout ; first funicular segment as stout as or slightly stouter than 

 the pedicellus in dorsal view, second segment slightly transverse, sixth quite 

 strongly so. Eyes separated by about 1-2 times their own length. Mid tibia 

 slightly expanded, about 6-5 times as long as broad . inornatus (Walker) (p. 685) 



- Fore wing with marginal vein 1-35 to 1-4 times as long as the stigmal vein ; basal 

 cell rather less pilose distally. Antennae with scape fully as long as an eye ; 

 flagellum rather slender proximally, first funicular segment barely as stout as the 

 pedicellus in dorsal view, segments one to four quadrate or hardly transverse, sixth 

 only slightly transverse. Eyes separated by about 1-5 times their own length. 

 Mid tibia not expanded, about 8-5 times as long as broad leptomerus sp. n. (p. 685) 



(Males) 

 1 Mid tibia strongly expanded and flattened in its distal half, only about 4-5 times as 



