Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok 15. - Natura Somogyiensis 31. / Miscellanea 15. (Kaposvár, 2018)
Haris A.–Saini S. M.: Tenthredo (Linné, 1758) species from Chopta, India
Haris, A. & Saini, M. S. Tenthredo species from Chopta, India 81 densely granulated, matt. Mesoscutellar appendage transversaly wrinkled, shiny. Metanotum smooth and shiny. Metascutellum smooth and shiny with longitudinal Carina, alongside this carina with minute dense punctures. Head and thorax covered with white short and sparse pubescence. Propodeum smooth and shiny. Other tergites with very fine, shallow and dense surface sculpture, shiny. Mesoscutellum pyramidally elevated with blunt apex and longitudinal carina. Mesopleuron strongly but bluntly elevated. Mesosternum without thorns. Postoccipital carina complete, on temples and vertex occipital carina expressed by white line. Ratios of antennal segments 1-9: 17:10:41 : 30 : 22 : 19 : 17 : 17: 15. OOL : POL : OCL: 9:2:6. Width : length (longitudinal measure) of the postocellar area: 5 : 3. Longest diameter of eye : length of 3rd antennal segment: 42 : 41. Ratios of hind tarsal segments 1-5 without claws: 60 : 24 : 20 : 14 : missing. Length of gena : diameter of anterior ocellus: 3 : 5. Depth of clypeal emargination : median length of clypeus: 12 : 25. Length of hind tibia : length of ovipositor: 70 : 33. LID :IDMO: EL: 37 : 53 : 42. ICD : ITD = 14 : 48. IATS : MB : OATS: 31 : 60 : 25. Antenna slender, about as long as than length of head, thorax and first 2 abdominal segments (propodeum and 1 st segment) combined. Subapical tooth of claw wider and shorter than apical. Length: 11.6 mm. The new species belongs to subgenus Tenthredella Rohwer, 1910 (Zhelochovtsev 1988). The specific name refers to the triangular pattern of abdomen. In Malaise (1945), the new species runs to Tenthredo victoriae Malaise, 1945. In Tenthredo victoriae Malaise, 1945 abdominal segments with wide black anterior margin without triangular pattern and there is a very sharp carina between mesopleuron and mesosternum, temples and mesosternum are light, mesoscutellum is white finally supraantennal tubercles are pale. In the new species, abdominal segments 2-6 with median and lateral triangular pattern, there is no carina between mesopleuron and mesosternum, temples, mesosternum, mesoscutellum mostly and supraantennal tubercles are black (except apical margin). In Saini (2007), the new species runs to Tenthredo maw Vasú & M.S. Saini, 1998. However, T. maw has completely different pattem on head (compare Fig. 4 with Fig. 330 in Saini (2007)), its antenna is stout but long and slender in the new species; the pattern of abdomen is also completely different in these 2 species, the characteristic abdominal coloration and pattern is completely missing from T. maw. Clypeal emargination only 0.25x as deep as clypeal median length in T. maw but this proportion is 0.5x in the new species. It also resembles to Tenthredo chloralancenia Wei, 1998 (Wei & Nie 1998). In Tenthredo chloralancenia Wei, 1998, tergites 1-8 with triangular spots in middle, tergites without anterior black margins, apical abdominal segments are greenish yellow, apex of femora and tibiae are with black line and mesopleuron is flat. In the new species triangular spots are on lateral and anterior-central sides of tergites 2-6 and tergites with anterior black margines, apical 4 abdominal segments are rusty red, tibiae without black line but femora have longitudinal black line in their total length and mesopleuron is strongly elevated. Tenthredo nefrostigmata spec. nov. (Figs. 5, 6 and 7) Holotype: female, India, Chopta, 2680 m. 23. 06. 2015. leg. M. S. Saini Head straw colored (in life green) with characteristic two-lobes black pattem covering vertex, interocellar area, area between supraantennal tubercles and with 2 semicircular lobes not reaching eyes. Antenna black, only scape straw colored. Mouthparts straw colored. Thorax straw colored (green), black: middle horizontal line on pronotum and
