Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1890 )

Madl, M., 2012, Notes on the genus Echthromorpha HOLMGREN 1868 (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Pimplinae) in the Malagasy Subregion, Linzer biologische Beiträge 44 (2), pp. 1207-1213 : 1209

Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1890) status revived

Stagmopimpla hyalina n.sp.: DE SAUSSURE 1890: pl. 16 (figs 1, 1a, b, p,, typ. gen.). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : KRIEGER 1899: 53 (tax.). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : SCHULZ 1906: 102 (tax.). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : KRIEGER 1909: 304 (key), 327 (descr.,

Madagascar). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : MORLEY 1913: 39 (key), 48 (tax., Madagascar). Stagmopimpla hyalina DE SAUSSURE 1892 : VIERECK 1914: 136 (cat. typ. gen.). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1890) : SEYRIG 1932: 15 (biol., Madagascar), 87 (tax., biol.,

Madagascar), pl. 6 (figs. 4-6). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1890) : SEYRIG 1935: 67 (biol., Madagascar). Echthomorpha (!) hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : PAULIAN 1953: 82 (host-parasite cat.

Madagascar). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : PAULIAN 1955: 228 (biol., Madagascar). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : PAULIAN & VIETTE 1955: 245 (biol., Madagascar). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : BENOIT 1957: 308 (tax., Réunion). Echthromorpha agrestoria ssp. hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : TOWNES 1958: 42 (tax.). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : BENOIT 1964: 384 (tax., Madagascar). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1890) : BRÉNIÈRE 1965: 347 (host-parasite cat.

Madagascar). Echthromorpha hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : TOWNES 1969: 115 ( Madagascar). Echthromorpha agrestoria hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : TOWNES & TOWNES 1973: 34 (cat.). Echtromorpha agrestoria hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : MADL 1996: 836 ( Madagascar), 837 (cat.

Madagascar). Echthromorpha agrestoria hyalina (DE SAUSSURE 1892) : YU & HORSTMANN 1997: 825 (cat.).

H o s t s: Lasiocampidae : Borocera cajani (Vinson 1863) – Noctuidae : Anomis auragoides (GUENÉE 1852), Anomis flava (FABRICIUS 1775) , Anticarsia rubricans (BOISDUVAL 1833), Thysanoplusia orichalcea (FABRICIUS 1775) , Simplicia pannalis GUENÉE 1863 – Sphingidae : Basiothia medea (FABRICIUS 1781) .

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Madagascar: without locality 1 leg. C. Keller (NHMW) – Prov. Fianarantsoa: Ifanadiana-Fort Carnot, 27 km S Ifanadiana 1 27.10.2001 leg. M. Madl (NHMW) – Ranomafana 1 24.10.1989 leg. L.A. Nilsson (Plant Reproduction & Ecology Project Uppsala).

D i s t r i b u t i o n: Madagascar: mainland, Nosy Boraha (Sainte Marie).

Endemic to Madagascar. It differs from Echthromorpha rufa CAMERON in several characters (see also key), but it ressembles Echthromorpha agrestoria occidentalis KRIEGER 1909, which has a black spot in the radial cell of the fore wing and the same sculpturation of the propodeum.