Muskovits József - György Zoltán - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Magyarország hangyadarazsai - Natura Somogyiensis 18. (Kaposvár, 2011)
Identification keys
100 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS East European species. It is reported for the first time from Hungary. A few localities are known (Fig. 23). Known period of collection: 11. V-31. IX. Distribution: Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine. Smicromyrme (.Eremotilla ) triangularis (RADOSZKOWSKI, 1865) 5 (2) Pygidium is not triangular but elongate, sides weakly rounded, or more or less parallel. 6 (9) Wrinkles covering entire pygidium. Pygidium narrow, more or less parallelsided (2nd subgenus: Smicromyrme THOMSON, 1870). 7 (8) Scutellar scale narrow, row of tubercles before scutellar scale absent or barely visible. Pygidium with wrinkles bell-shaped (Fig. 139). Clypeus with small tubercle at middle. Mandibles unidentate, short. Antennae reddish brown, slightly darkening toward apex. Head black, with sparse appressed pale pubescence and sparse erect brownish setae. Mesosoma reddish brown, about 1.5x longer than wide, anterior angle about 90o, not rounded, with sparse appressed pale setae, shiny in middle, and with sparse erect pale setae. Scutellar scale small, about 1/8-1/10 of width of mesosoma, its apex slightly darker. Legs uniformly reddish brown, with sparse erect pale setae. Middle of tergite 2 with an elliptical anterior spot of pale pubescence, and weak band of pale pubescence posteriorly produced triangularly forward. Tergite 3 entirely covered by pale pubescence. One of the smallest velvet ants in Hungary (Fig. 192). 3-5 mm. Mediterranean species, with a subspecies described from Corse and Sardinia. It is rare in Hungary, even though both males and females were found in several localities (Fig. 24). It occurs mainly in sandy areas. Known period of collection: 12. V— 9. X. Distribution: Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, as well as Kazakhstan. Smicromyrme (,Smicromyrme ) ruficollis (FABRICIUS, 1793) 8 (7) Scutellar scale wider, transverse row of tubercles before scutellar scale welldeveloped. Pygidium with wrinkles running parallel on entire surface (Fig. 140). Clypeus convex, with large large tubercle in middle. Mandibles bidentate or tridentate, long and pointed, one or two denticles under apex very small (Fig. 111). Flagellomere 1 somewhat longer than 2. Mesosoma about 1.5x longer than wide. Head and metasoma black, mesosoma rusty brown, antennae reddish brown, darkening toward apex. Legs brownish red, tibial base and tarsi much lighter. Frons and vertex with sparse erect black setae, anterior part of mesosoma with pale setae. Metasomal tergite 2 anteriorly with round spot, posteriorly with transverse band of pale pubescence not widening in middle. Tergite 3 entirely covered by pale pubescence. Sides of tergites 2, 4 and 5 with sparse black pubescence, legs with pale setae. Small species (Fig. 194). 3-7 mm. It is distributed in the western and eastern part of Palaearctic region, with one subspecies each described from Spain and Sicily. In Hungary it is the second commonest species of velvet ants (after Myrmilla calva), being collected in many places (Fig. 25). It lives mainly in dry, sandy areas, and it is a parasitoid of various groups of Aculeata: it has been observed around nests of Crabro, Evagetes, Tachysphex, Cerceris, Gorytes and Halictus species. Known period of collection: 29. IV-30. X.
