Muskovits József - György Zoltán - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Magyarország hangyadarazsai - Natura Somogyiensis 18. (Kaposvár, 2011)

Identification keys

MAGYARORSZÁG HANGYADARAZSAI - VELVET ANTS OF HUNGARY (MUTILLIDAE) 101 Identification keys In the following we give separately, for males and females, the keys to the genera that occur in Hungary and neighbouring countries. Within a genus the males and the females are treated in one key. With respect to neighbouring countries we did not attempt to completeness, we considered mainly the species that are included in one of the Hungarian collection. Square brackets indicate species whose occurrence in present-day Hungary is doubtful or not confirmed, even though their occurrence has been mentioned in earlier literature. (The reasons for the erroneous data are that they refer to the much larger pre-W.W.I Hungary, and misidentifications.) Foreign authors often take these older data into account when they report on the occurrence of velvet ants in Hungary. We consider that a given species occurs in Hungary only if at least one voucher specimen is found in a collection. Following the identification keys the locality data are listed for each species that we compiled from labels on the specimens in museums and private collections. Literature data are not listed, we use only the data from specimens that we have seen and/or identified. Body parts situated towards the head are referred to „anterior" or „front" and those that fall towards the rear „posterior", „back" or „hind". Under the term „thorax" we understand the combination of real thorax and propodeum fused to each other known as „mesosoma" and under the term „abdomen" we take the abdomen without the propodeum known as „metasoma". Identification of the sexes 1 (2) Number of antennomeres 12. Mesosomal segments entirely fused, at most border between prothorax and mesothorax visible (subfamily Myrmosinae). Number of metasomal segments 6. Always apterous Females 2 (1) Number of antennomeres 13. Mesosomal segments not fused, always distinctly visible as in other Hymenoptera. Number of metasomal segments 7. Winged, (except subgenus Pseudomutilla of genus Myrmilla) Males