Анотація:
The paper deals with the description of Apanteles meratus sp. n., new for science species from the Black Sea reservation (South of the Ukraine). It differs from A. myeloenta W i l k i n s o n in the head shape, a more glittering face and mesoscutum, an almost smooth propodeum and a shorter metacarp. The holotype and three paratypes are preserved at the Institute of Zoology of the Ukr. SSR Academy of Sciences (Kiev), I paratype — at the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Leningrad). A key of the merula group species known from Europe is presented.