Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok X. - Natura Somogyiensis 25. (Kaposvár, 2014)
Haris A.: New Tenthredo Linné, 1758 species from China (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae)
58 Natura Somogyiensis Abdomen black; yellow: wide margin of propodeum, wide, central hind margins of tergites 3-9: tergite 8 dominantly yellow, hind yellow bands on tergites 5-6 spot-like, short. Stemites dominantly yellow with wide basal black margins. Base of ovipositor white, otherwise black. Head shiny with sporadic large and deep punctures. Postoccipital carina complete. OOL : POL : OCL: 25 : 7 : 15. Postocellar area wider than long as 5: 3. Ratio of antennal segments: 22 : 14 : 53 : 39 : 35 : 25 : 22 : 19 : 19. Antenna about as long as head and thorax combined including half of propodeum. Supraantennal tubercles confluent with frontal crests. Gena about 0.8x as wide as diameter of anterior ocellus. Clypeal emargination about 0.2x as deep as clypeal median length. Mesonotum and mesoscutellum with very dense, small and deep punctures, nearly granulated, moderately shiny. Mesoscutellar appendage with fine coriaceous surface sculpture with few large and deep punctures, slightly shiny. Metascutellum roughly, horizontally wrinkled, hardly shiny. Mesopleuron very densely, minutely, shallowly punctured, moderately shiny. Mesoscutellum flat. Mesopleuron gently and bluntly elevated. Mesostemum without thorn. First tergite (propodeum) with minute coriaceous surface sculpture, other tergites with fine microstriation, moderately shiny. Length of hind basitarsus : length of inner hind tibial spur: 15:7. Hind basitarsus longer than next 2 tarsal segments combined but shorter than next 3. Length: 15.0 mm. In the key of Malaise (1945), and Saini (2007), the new species runs to Tenthredo kumaonensis (Rohwer, 1921), valid name is Tenthredo dorsivittata (Cameron, 1902). Tenthredo dorsivittata Cameron has mesonotum polished with small separate punctures, mesopleuron shiny with sparse punctures, a band below antennae is white, hind femur partly, mesostemum white, clypeus moderately deeply emarginated (0.25x), propodeum in dorsal view is black, lower hind orbit white. The new species has mesonotum hardly shiny with dense punctures, mesopleuron densely, minutely punctured, hardly shiny, area below antenna is completely black, hind femur entirely black, hind tibia with longitudinal black line, tergites 3 and 4 without large triangular spot, mesostemum is black, clypeus hardly emarginated (0.17x), half of propodeum in dorsal view is yellowish white, lower hind orbit is black. Other closely related species is Tenthredo melanosternum M.S. Saini & Vasu, 1999. The abdominal pattem of Tenthredo melanosternum Saini and Vasu is completely different from the new species (see Fig. 346 in Saini 2007), anterior lobe of mesonotum with pale apex (entirely black in the new species) and clypeus is moderately deeply emarginated (0.25x) but subtruncate in the new species (0.17x). In Tenthredo shii Wei, 1998, clypeus even more deeply emarginated (0.33x as deep as clypeal median length) and all scutelli are pale, mesonotum is indistinctly punctured and shiny (subtruncate in the new species and scutelly are black, mesonotum is distinctly punctured, hardly shiny). Finally, the new species differs from Tenthredo malimilova Wei, 2005, that T. malmilova has all scutelly and scape pale, 1 st and 2nd tergites smooth and shiny and clypeus roundly emarginated. These are black in the new species, all tergites with fine microstriation and never smooth and shiny and clypeus is subtruncate. Tenthredo sinoflava spec. nov. (Figs. 3 and 16) Holotype: female, China, Shaanxi, Qinling mts., Xunyangbam (6 km E) 1000-1300 m., 05. 23.- 13. 06. 1998,1. H. Marshal leg.
