Erromenus analis Brischke, 1871

Verheyde, Fons, Hoekstra, Paul, Libert, Pierre-Nicolas, Meijer, Hilco, Ketelaere, Augustijn De, Vandaudenard, Thibaud, Belgers, Dick & Brosens, Edwin, 1880, Two hundred and five ichneumonid wasps reported for the first time in Belgium and the Netherlands (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 122, pp. 1-142 : 126

Erromenus analis Brischke, 1871

Erromenus spp. can be distinguished from other Tryphonini by the lack of the typical zigzag 2m-cu fore wing vein or horn on the frons. Their areolet is petiolate or subpetiolate above, or absent and their ovipositor sometimes has a typical shape and is often upcurved. The subtegular ridge is produced upward and outward as a lamella that is in contact with the lower edge of the tegula when the tegula is not raised ( TOWNES, 1969). Species are rather robust (Fig. 69).

E. analis has a closed areolet and characteristically, its face is very convex with the fovea deeply impressed. The gena is short, not measuring more than 0.2× the width of the mandibular base ( KASPARYAN & TOLKANITZ, 1981). It is a parasitoid of gall-forming sawflies from the genera Pontania and Phyllocopla (Symphyta: Tenthredinidae ) ( KASPARYAN & KOPELKE, 2009).

First report for the Netherlands; unreported in Belgium.

MATERIAL EXAMINED:

THE NETHERLANDS: • 1 ♂; Eastermar (FR); 53°10’47”N 6°05’39”E; 20/vi/2012; Landschapsbeheer Friesland leg.; coll. HM; malaise trap 31 (13-20); H. Meijer det.