The Asiatic and African Species of the Genus <i>Elasmus</i>, Westw. (Hym., Chalcid.)

Abstract

Up to 1909, the date of publication of the volume on C halcididae in the Genera Insectorum, the genus Elasmus , Westw., was considered to be distributed only in Europe and America. In his list of species S chmiedeknecht mentioned only a single Asiatic species, E. anticles , Walk., from India, and no Australian or African species. At that date two other oriental species were already known, the one described, but not named, by Z ehntner from Java (1900), and the other from the Philippine Islands, E. philippinensis , Ashmead (1904).