Muskovits József - György Zoltán - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Magyarország hangyadarazsai - Natura Somogyiensis 18. (Kaposvár, 2011)
Identification keys
100 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS longitudinal carina. Tergite 2 with long straight lateral felt lines. Body, antennae and legs black, metasomal segment 2, usually rusty red, occasionally only tergite 2 rusty red. Sometimes whole body black. Whole body and legs with dark setae, tegulae and mesosoma with black setae. Metasoma without spots or bands of pale pubescence. Wings smoky brown, barely transparent, pterostigma small. Large species. 11-18 mm. Tropidotilla litoralis (PETAGNA, 1787) 3.2nd tribe: Smicromyrmini BISCHOFF, 1920 Female head narrower than metasomal tergite 2. Flagellomere 1 about 1.2-1.3x longer than 2. Scutellar scale present, occasionally quite large (genus Physetopoda ). Metasomal segment 1 short. Pale patterns on metasoma consisting of one or three spots of pale pubescence on anterior half of tergite 2, and pale transverse band on posterior part. Pale band on posterior part of tergite 2 produced triangularly forward or excised in middle. Tergite 3 also with transverse band. Pygidium present. Male tegulae extending but not surpassing suture between mesonotum and scutellum. Metasomal segment 1 bell-shaped, not transverse. Dentilla LELEJ, 1980 Female eyes strongly enlarged. Flagellomere 1 longer than 2. Pygidium wide,triangular, narrowing toward apex, surface covered by longitudinal wrinkles. Male mandible usually quadridentate (occasionally tridentate), with large obtuse protrusion in middle. Clypeus convex. Excision of inner eye margin weak. Felt lines both on tergite 2 and on sternite 2 present. Male of the species occurring in Hungary unknown. The genus includes 3 species in Europe. One occurs in Hungary. 1 (2) Apterous forms, females. Head slightly wider than long. Clypeus concave, anterior part without tubercle. Mandible tridentate, but teeth very small (Fig. 109). Flagellomere 1 about 1.21.3x longer than 2. Mesosoma about 1.3-1.4* longer than wide. Scutellar scale wide, nail-like, row of tubercles before scutellar scale clearly visible. Metasomal tergite 2 with spot of pale pubescence, posterior margin with band of pale pubescence, slightly produced forward in middle. Distance between spot and band smaller than diameter of spot. Entire surface of tergite 3 covered by pale pubescence, no band on other tergites. Pygidium triangular, widening basally, surface with longitudinal bell-shaped wrinkles (Fig. 137). Head black, frons entirely black or reddish brown, mesosoma rusty red, metasoma black. Antennae reddish brown, legs dark chestnut brown. Head and mesosoma with sparse appressed and erect black setae, legs and metasoma with sparse pale setae forming weak band on posterior margin of sternites. Medium-sized species (Fig. 168). 6-9 mm. East Mediterranean species, which is very rare in Hungary (Fig. 13). Male is still undescribed. Known period of collection: 20. VI-30. IX. Distribution: Albania, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia, Syria and Turkey. Dentilla curtiventris (ANDRÉ , 1901)
