Halticoptera dimidiata (Förster)

Mitroiu, Mircea-Dan, 2005, A review of the Romanian Halticoptera Spinola (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea, Pteromalidae), with description of three new species, Zootaxa 1090 (1), pp. 35-49 : 47-48

Halticoptera dimidiata (Förster) new record

Phacostomus dimidiata Förster, 1841 , Beiträge zur Monographie der Pteromalinen, Nees, 1 Heft. 35 Aachen

Halticoptera brevicornis Thomson, 1876 , Hymenoptera Scandinaviae 4: 251.

Romanian material examined: Vǎratec (Neamţ county), on vegetation in spruce­tree forest: 1♂ 11. VII. 1998 (M.­D. Mitroiu); Potoci (Neamţ county), mountain meadow (about 800 m): 1♀ 28. VI. 1999 (M.­D. Mitroiu) .

This species is widely distributed in Europe (see Noyes 2003), but apparently it is not very frequent in Romania.