Charipinae Dalla Torre & Kieffer, 1910 (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) from the Mercantour National Park (Alpes-Maritimes, France), with descriptions of three new species Author Ferrer-Suay, Mar Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Animal, Avda. Diagonal 645, E- 08028 Barcelona (Spain) mar. ferrer. suay @ gmail. com (corresponding author) suay@gmail.com Author Selfa, Jesús Universitat de València, Facultat de Ciències Biològiques, Departament de Zoologia, Campus de Burjassot-Paterna, Dr Moliner 50, E- 46100 Burjassot (València) (Spain) jesus. selfa @ uv. es selfa@uv.es Author Villemant, Claire Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département de systématique et évolution - UMR 7205, Case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier F- 75231 Paris Cedex 05 (France) villeman @ mnhn. fr villeman@mnhn.fr Author Pujade-Villar, Juli Facultat de Biologia, Departament de Biologia Animal, Avda. Diagonal 645, E- 08028 Barcelona (Spain) jpujade @ ub. edu jpujade@ub.edu text Zoosystema 2015 2015-03-31 37 1 115 138 http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2015n1a5 journal article 10.5252/z2015n1a5 1638-9387 4577554 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A452D294-BA01-4C5B-9B0B-77B4079BFF1C Alloxysta brachycera Hellén, 1963 ( Figs 2C ; 3C ) Alloxysta brachycera Hellén, 1963: 14 . MATERIAL EXAMINED. — ( 11♀ ). M09-BOR1400- T3 -M1: 4♀ ; M09-BOR1400- T5 -M1: 1♀ ; M09-BOR2000- T4 -M1: 2♀ ; M09-SES2000- T3 -M1: 1♀ ; M09-SES2000- T5 -M1: 1♀ ; M10- CAI2000- T1 -M1: 1♀ ; M10-CAI2000- T3 -M1: 1♀ . Material deposited at MNHN , except for 5♀ deposited at UB . DISTRIBUTION. — Previously known from Finland ( Hellén 1963 ). First record from France . HOSTS. — Unknown. DIAGNOSIS. — Alloxysta brachycera is characterized by: a completely open radial cell, 2.7 × longer than wide ( Fig. 3C ), pronotal carinae present, propodeal carinae absent, female antenna with rhinaria beginning from F4, F1 longer than pedicel and F2, F2 longer than F3, F3 shorter than F4 ( Fig. 2C ). Male unknown. Similar to Alloxysta nigrita ( Thomson, 1862 ) , but the two species can be differentiated by: F2 longer than F 3 in A. brachycera ( Fig. 2C ), whereas F2 is shorter than F 3 in A. nigrita ( Fig. 2N ); proportions of radial cell: 2.7 × longer than wide in A. brachycera ( Fig. 3C ), versus 2.9 × in A. nigrita ( Fig. 3N ).