Ecphylus (Sactopus) caudatus Ruschka

Belokobylskij, Sergey A. & Kula, Robert R., 2012, Review of the brachypterous, micropterous, and apterous Braconidae of the cyclostome lineage (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) from the Palearctic Region 3240, Zootaxa 3240 (1), pp. 1-62 : 7

Ecphylus (Sactopus) caudatus Ruschka

Ecphylus caudatus Ruschka in Wichmann, 1916: 25 [original description].

Ecphylus (Sactopus) caudatus: Belokobylskij 1993a: 88 [subgeneric placement].

Ecphylus hattorii Kôno & Watanabe, 1935: 68 [original description]; Hedqvist 1967: 68 [synonymy]; Belokobylskij 2009b: 89 [status revised as valid].

Sycogaster lavagnei Picard & Lichtenstein, 1917: 285 [original description]. Synonymized in Fahringer (1930).

Ecphylus lavagnei: Thompson 1953: 115 [revised combination].

New material. Tunesia: 3 females, 3 males (macropterous), 1 male (apterous) “Hammamet, Mrezgue, coll. 24.XI.2007 on Ficus, reared 27.XI.2007, E. Nowakowski ” ( ZISP)

Distribution. Algeria, Austria, Croatia, France, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Romania, Russia (European part) ( Yu et al. 2005; Belokobylskij 2009b), and Tunesia (new record).

Remarks. Males and females of this species have both macropterous and apterous forms; apterous forms have reduced mesosomal parts and smooth sutures. The distribution of this species is restricted to the West Palearctic, whereas E. hattorii , a former synonym of E. caudatus , occurs in the East Palearctic ( Belokobylskij 2009b). Kula (2011: table 1, p. 56) mistakenly listed that E. caudatus occurs in the New World and inadvertently excluded Ecphylus arcuatus Muesebeck (female macropterous, male micropterous).