Descriptive notes on ten, mainly new, species of West Palaearctic Eulophidae (Hymenoptera)

Abstract: The following species are described as new: Elachertus pilosiscuta, sp. n., from Czechoslovakia and the European U.S.S.R., Elachertus longipetiolus, sp. n., from France and Czechoslovakia, Ardalus azerbaidzhanicus, sp. n., from the Azerbaidzhan S.S.R., Cirrospilus caspicus, sp. n., from the eastern slopes of the Caucasus. Ratzeburgiola incompleta, sp. n., from Czechoslovakia., Italy, the Moldavian S.S.R. and the Azerbaidzhan S.S.R., Teleopterus delucchii, sp. n., from Britain, Poland, the Moldavian S.S.R., Italy and Yugoslavia, Holcopelte stelteri, sp. n., from Germany, and Tetrastichus postmarginalis, sp. n., from Czechoslovakia, Austria and Yugoslavia. Sympiesis punctijrons (Thomson) is resuscitated as a good species and compared with S. acalle (Walker). The genus Ohrysocharidia Erdos is synonymized with Achrysocharis Girault and Achr. fimbriata (Erdos), comb. n., partly redescribed in both sexes. Holotypes of the new species, as well as most paratypes, are deposited in the Entomology Department of the National Museum in Praha.

Key words: new species, key, Eulophidae, Hymenoptera, West Palaearctic, Europe, Czechoslovakia, France, Caucasus,