Ecrizotes monticola Förster, 1861

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, Andriescu, Ionel & Manic, Gheorghe, 2024, The Afrotropical and West-Palaearctic species of Ecrizotes Förster (Hymenoptera: Pirenidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 970, pp. 1-37 : 28-30

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scientific name	Ecrizotes monticola Förster, 1861
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Fig. 11 View Fig

Ecrizotes monticola Förster, 1861: 33 ; lectotype ♀, ZMHB, designated by Bouček 1961: 58, not examined.

Henicetrus anellus Thomson, 1876: 191 ; holotype ♀, ZMUL, images examined.

Ecrizotes anellus – Schmiedeknecht 1909: 273; new combination.

Henicetrus anellus – Graham 1969: 331; subjective synonym of E. monticola .

Diagnosis

Female All funiculars wider than long; Fu3 anelliform ( Fig. 11C View Fig ); ventral margin of clypeus strongly convex

( Fig. 11D View Fig ); head in frontal view with gena buccate ( Fig. 11B View Fig ); hind tibia length 5.0–5.2 × width; gaster at most equal to combined length of head and mesosoma, only slightly compressed laterally ( Fig. 11A View Fig ); tip of hypopygium incised (cf. Figs 3G View Fig , 6F View Fig ); ovipositor sheath length 0.3–0.4 × length of hind tibia.

Male

Unknown.

Material examined

CYPRUS • 1 ♀; “ Troodos , Almyrolivado / 1650m, 34°55’42”N 32°53’48”E / 27-29 May 2009, Fusu L. & / Popovici O., YPT, dry slope // MICO UCRC_ENT 00486453 // DNA Voucher D#4809 / UCR, J.M. Heraty ”; MICO GoogleMaps • 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; “ sweep net ”; MICO GoogleMaps .

FRANCE • 2 ♀♀; “Villefranche / nr. Lyon, France / 13.vi.75 // on Phacelia congesta / lg. Piaccordi // det. Z. Bouček 1978 // ♀ Spathopus ”; NMPC .

REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA • 2 ♀♀; “ R. Moldova, Vulcă- / nești, 12.07.2008 / Medicago sativa / Leg. Manic Gh.”; MICO • 1 ♀; “Rez. Codrii, r. Stră- / șeni, Rep. Moldova / 19.08.2007 // Medicago sativa / leg. Manic G. ”; MICO .

ROMANIA • 1 ♀; “VD [Valea lui David], 12.5.07 / leg. O. P. [Ovidiu Popovici]!”; MICO.

SWITZERLAND • 1 ♀, paralectotype; “17 / 251. Frst. / Roseggthal [Förster’s handwriting] // Ecrizotes monticola Förster 1861 ♀ / Cotype [red label]”; NMPC .

Distribution

Switzerland (Förster 1861), Sweden (Thomson 1878); Cyprus, France, Republic of Moldova (new records); also cited from Romania (Mitroiu 2008), but apart from the specimens listed above, previous records need to be confirmed. In UCD Community (2023), there are additional country records, but these also need to be checked in order to establish which of the two species ( E. caudatus or E. monticola ) is involved (see Taxonomic comments under E. caudatus ).

Hosts

Unknown. Collected on Phacelia congesta Hook. ( Hydrophyllaceae ) in France, steppe vegetation in Romania, and alfalfa in Republic of Moldova.

Taxonomic comments

In NMPC we examined a female paralectotype of E. monticola (labeled as cotype and bearing Förster’s label), probably loaned by Bouček from Berlin ( Fig. 11G–I View Fig ). It agrees well with Förster’s brief description in having the “ovipositor slightly protruding” / “Bohrer etwas vorragend” (Förster 1861: 33). Along with a shorter and less laterally compressed gaster, this character can quite easily separate this species from the otherwise similar E. caudatus (see also Taxonomic comments under that species); additionally, we noticed that in E. monticola Fu 3 tends to be considerably smaller – sometimes virtually invisible in air-dried specimens ( Fig. 11C, H View Fig ) – than in E. caudatus , where it was always easily visible ( Fig. 3E, I View Fig ).