Ecrizotes monticola Forster 1861
Creators: name: Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan
name: Andriescu, Ionel
name: Manic, Gheorghe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Ecrizotes
Ecrizotes monticola

description: Ecrizotes monticola Förster, 1861
Fig. 11
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); ventral margin of clypeus strongly convex (Fig. 11D); head in frontal view with gena buccate (Fig. 11B); 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); tip of hypopygium incised (cf. Figs 3G, 6F); 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 • 2 ♀♀; same data as for preceding; “ sweep net ”; MICO.
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). 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) – than in E. caudatus, where it was always easily visible (Fig. 3E, I).
description: Published as part of Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, Andriescu, Ionel & Manic, Gheorghe, 2024, The Afrotropical and West-Palaearctic species of Ecrizotes Förster (Hymenoptera: Pirenidae), pp. 1-37 in European Journal of Taxonomy 970 on pages 28-30, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.970.2745, http://zenodo.org/record/14250444