Muskovits József - György Zoltán - Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Magyarország hangyadarazsai - Natura Somogyiensis 18. (Kaposvár, 2011)
Identification keys
100 NATURA SOMOGYIENSIS as in females. Body black, tegulae reddish brown. Wings slightly smoky. Large species (Fig. 164). 11-15 mm. Mutilla marginata BAER, 1848 Ronisia COSTA, 1858 Female clypeus weakly convex, with two tubercles at base. Flagellomere 1 about 1.5x longer than 2. Pygidium wiing basally, surface granulate. Metasomal sternite 2 with small tubercle on anterior part. Male with inner side of metacoxa with carina. No bluish lustre on metasoma. Both sides of metasomal tergite 7 with depression. The genus includes 5 species in Europe. One occurs in Hungary. 1 (2) Apterous forms, females. Mandibles bidentate, pointed, black toward apex (Fig. 107). Flagellomere 1 more than 1.5* longer than 2, which about as long as flagellomere 3. No scutellar scale and felt lines. Metasomal sternite 1 with clearly visible medial longitudinal carina. Head black, with large area red in middle. Antenna brownish red, base much lighter. Mesosoma rusty red, occasionally brownish red. Legs and metasoma black, apart from whitish pattern on metasoma. Vertex and upper parts of mesosoma with sparse, appressed, golden red setae, and sparse, erect, long black setae; legs having pale setae. Tergites 1 and 2 with three round spots of pale setae each: one spot in middle of posterior margin, and one spot on each side. Tergite 3 entirely covered by whitish setae, no band of pale setae on other tergites. Ventral side of metasoma with sparse pale setae forming weak band of setae on posterior margin of sternites. Pygidium covered by black setae. Large species (Fig. 170). 8-16 mm. Mediterranean species, which occurs mainly on sandy areas. Two subspecies were described form Crete and Rhodos as well as from Cyprus. In Hungary it is a common species, more than 30 localities are known for both males and females (Fig. 11). The localities are very variable (sandy soils on the plains, compact soil in hilly regions, calcareous soils in mountainous areas). Males prefer to feed on flowers of wild carrot (Daucus carota L). It is a parasitoid of bees (species of Anthophora, Megachile és Chalicodoma). Known period of collection: 9. V-25. IX. Distribution: Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Malta, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Ronisia brutia (PETAGNA, 1787) 2 (1) Winged forms, males. Clypeus convex, with Y-shaped elevation in middle, slightly excised at middle of anterior margin, surface coarsely punctate. Mandibles pointed, bidentate (Fig. 108). Flagellomere 1 slightly shorter than 2, which about 1.3X shorter than flagellomere 3. Metasomal sternite 1 with clearly visible medial longitudinal carina. Tergite 2 with long felt lines. Head, metasoma, ventral side of mesosoma and mesopleuron black; upper part of mesosoma (pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, tegulae, propodeum and upper part of mesopleuron) rusty red, antennae and legs dark pitch brown. Head, anterior part of pronotum, tegulae and mesosoma, except mesosomal spots of pale setae, covered by long black erect setae. Legs and ventral parts of metasoma having long pale (whitish) sparse erect setae, forming
