Muskovits József - György Zoltán - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Magyarország hangyadarazsai - Natura Somogyiensis 18. (Kaposvár, 2011)
Identification keys
100 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS 1 (6) Apterous forms, females. 2 (3) Head rusty red, about 1.3-1.5x wider than prothorax. Mandibles with well-developed protrusion on outer side. Mandible tridentate. Flagellomere 1 about as long as 2 and 3 combined. Head and mesosoma rusty brown, antennae and legs somewhat darker, metasoma black. Head and upper parts of mesosoma with sparse appressed pale setae and erect brownish setae. Almost entire surface of metasomal tergite 1 covered by whitish setae, sides of tergites 2 and 3 with two large spots of white setae each, other tergites without bands or spots of pale setae (Fig. 166). 10-16 mm. Mediterranean species. Neither female nor male specimens were found in Hungary. According to BAJÁRI (1956) the nearest known locality is Zagreb, Croatia, from where voucher specimen is available. Distribution: Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Spain, Ukraine, as well as North-Africa (Algeria, Morocco) and the Middle East (Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey). [Mutilla quinquemaculata CYRILLO, 1787] 3 (2) Head black, not or only 1.0-1.2x wider than mesosoma. Mandibles without protrusion on outer side. 4 (5) Legs with setae dark, frequently black. Head not wider than mesosoma. Mesosoma 1.5* longer than broad. Clypeus with two tubercles on its transverse elevation, and with one tubercle at base. Mandible tridentate, with one long pointed apical tooth and two smaller, less pointed teeth near apex (Fig. 85). Flagellomere 1 about 1.5x longer than 2. Propodeum slightly widening posteriorly, not narrower than anterior part of mesosoma. Sides of anterior part of metasomal sternite 1 with conspicuously wide triangular process. Sternite 1 with medial longitudinal carina; no process on sternite 2. Head black, occasionally with red tinge on frons; mandibles and antennae black. Mesosoma coarsely punctuate, rusty red, prothorax black, metasoma black, except pale patterns. Metasomal tergites 1-3 with wide band of pale setae. Tergite 1 with band entire, tergites 2 and 3 with band widely interrupted in middle. Head and mesosoma covered by sparse, erect brownish setae. The largest velvet ant species in Hungary (Fig. 163). 10-20) mm. Widely distributed Palaearctic species, fairly common in mountainous regions, mainly in the Carpathians and the Alps. It is a rare species in Hungary (Fig. 9). Surprisingly, the MTM houses specimens from localities on the Great Hungarian Plain, where the soil is alkaline. It is a parasitoid of bumblebees (Bombus species). Males are frequently found on umbellifers (Apiaceae). Known period of collection: 28. IV-20. VIII. Distribution: Nearly everywhere in Europe all the way to the Urals: Austria, Belgium, BosniaHerzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom, as well as North-Africa and the Middle East. Mutilla europaea LINNAEUS, 1758 5 (4) Legs with dirty whitish setae, mesosoma and head with black setae. Head slightly wider than mesosoma. Mesosoma 2x longer than broad.
