The subfamily Cratocentrinae (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae): reappraisal of their morphological characters and review of the West Palaearctic species, with the description of two new species Author Abul-Sood, Medhat I. Author Gadallah, Neveen S. Author Hossni, Mohammed T. Author Delvare, Gérard text Zootaxa 2018 2018-02-05 4377 4 490 516 journal article 30847 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.4.2 98bfb263-56ab-4260-8fb0-1bb6eaadbd02 1175-5326 1165794 E534DDB0-2EAA-4293-AB2B-37E6F4193A57 Cratocentrus fastuosus ( Masi, 1944 ) ( Figs 1 , 32‒38 ) Cerachalcis fastuosa Masi, 1944 : 123 –125. Original description ♀ ♂ . Algeria , Oran and Libya , Cyrenaica. = Cerachalcis carambycida [sic] Masi, 1944 : 126 –127. Steffan, 1957 : 239 . Cratocentrus fastuosus : Steffan, 1957 : 239 ; Steffan, 1959 : 313 . Type material . Cerachalcis fastuosa . Paratypes, 2 ♀, one entire on a minutien, labelled 'Cyneraica R. U. Agraria Geo C. Krüger Gerges Lb.' / ' Cerachalcis fastuosa' [manuscript] / 'co-typus' / 'Museo Civico di Genova, the second only with remains of the gaster, partly dissected (MCSN) ( Fig. 66 ). Cerachalcis carambycida . Holotype ♀ (MNHN) (see Fig. 65 for the labelling). Other material . EGYPT : Meadi [sic] ( Maadi ), 26.3.1930 , H. Priesner leg. ( 1 ♂ ) ( NMP ) ; Kafr El-Hamam ( Sharqia ), 16.10.2015 , Abul-Sood leg ( 1♀ ) ( EFC ) . MOROCCO : Tarhazoute , 20 km N Agadir , 04.v.1989 , H. Tussac leg. ( 1 ♀ 1 ♂ ) ( GDPC ) ; Moulay Idriss , ruins of antic city of Volubilis , N34°04'34" W05°33'14" , 15.v.2000 , H. Tussac leg. ( 1 ♀ ) ( GDPC ) ; ' Maroc Rabat 22.7.38 , Ch. Rungs leg.' ( 1 ♀ ) ( MNHN ) . SAUDI ARABIA : Jizan hot springs 25/3/1980 K.M. Guichard leg ( 1 ♂ ) ( NMP ) . SPAIN : Alméria, Mojacar, 13.vi.1994 , on Zizyphus lotus , M. Tussac leg. ( 1 ♀ ) ( GDPC ) . Comment . The holotype of C. fastuosa could not be traced in MNB. Diagnosis . Female . Setation silvery on whole body ( Figs 1 , 32 ). Frons with adpressed setation not completely covering integument and mixed with sparser suberect setae ( Fig. 33 ). Scape reddish. Teeth on vertex sharp. Pronotal carina well expanded, only narrowly broken mesally ( Fig. 32 ). Dorsum of pronotum with 2 transverse rows of large areolae mesally having their anterior margins raised into crests. Mesoscutal fasciae moderately expanded ( Fig. 32 ). Setation on posterior slope of axillae not very dense. Mid lobe of mesoscutum with large areoles posteriorly. Fore wing distinctly infuscate at apex ( Fig. 1 ). GT5 and GT6 with well expanded and well delimited fasciae but those on GT5 widely separated ( Figs 1 , 32 ). Ovipositor sheaths relatively short, only 2.3× as long as the carinate dorsal edge of syntergum ( Fig. 1 ). Male with all flagellomeres somewhat transverse ( Fig. 35 ) and syntergal projection short, with the usual pair of lateral points at apex ( Figs 37, 38 ). FIGURES 32–38 . Cratocentrus fastuosus . 32–34 . Female. 35–38 . Male. 32 . Habitus in dorsal view. 33 . Head in anterolateral view. 34 . Metatibia in dorsal view. 35 . Antenna. 36 . Metasoma in dorsal view. 37–38 . Syntergum in dorsal and posterodorsal views respectively. Recognition . Cratocentrus fastuosus can be separated from the Afrotropical species by the entirely silvery setation of the whole body ( Fig. 1 ), the presence of elongate fasciae along the notauli ( Fig.32 ) and the relatively short ovipositor sheaths ( Fig. 1 ). It is distinguished from the Palaearctic species by the reddish scape, the sharp teeth on the vertex ( Fig. 33 ) and the well expanded pronotal carina ( Fig. 32 ). Distribution . North Africa : Morocco , Algeria , Libya and Egypt . Arabian Peninsula : Saudi Arabia . Europe : Spain (new record for Europe). Hosts . The type of C. carambycida was reared from Derolus mauritanicus (Buquet, 1840) [= Cerambyx nerii ]. Steffan (1959: 313) also quoted Icosium tomentosum Lucas, 1854 another long-horn beetle and Trachypteris picta (Pallas, 1773) [= Melanophila ] ( Buprestidae ).