Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 68. (Budapest 1976)

Zombori, L.: New sawfly species in the Hungarian fauna (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), II

4. Strombocerina delicatula (FALLEN, 1808) — This rather delicate, inconspicuously coloured, mainly greenish spotted with black, species is comparatively scarce throughout Europe. It is again associated with Pteridium aquilinum, on which its larva feeds. MOCSÁRY recorded it from three places which fall outside the domain of present-day Hungary ("Rézbánya, Sztranszke, Com. Trencsén, Velebit"). The sole Hungarian locality is "Mátra hegys., Pisztrángos-tó, 1955. VI. 20.-27., MIHÁLYI—KAKASSNÉ". (HNHM). 5. Monostegia cingulata (KONOW, 1891)—-This species has obviously escaped the attention of former Hungarian systematists, since it never appeared in the home literature. This fact may be due to an inadequately known variety of a closely related species : M. abdominalis var. analis KNW. The variety analis Superficially much resembles. M. cingulata var. nigra, both have darkly coloured abdominal tergites, but while the abdomen of var. nigra (dark phase of the species) is entirely black, the sternites of var. analis are yellow. — Another point which might also have caused confusion is that ENSLIN (1914) discussed both varieties under the name of abdominalis, and it was CONDE (1940) who unequivocally keyed them out in his useful study on Empria, There are some other points to be considered. In 1958 CINGOVSKI described on the basis of one male a species under the name of Empria atrata. He related his new species to "Empria pidverata RETZ.", known today rather as Monsoma pidverata, and he also made mention of KONOW'S var. nigra, though the latter belongs now to a different genus and species! Unfortunately enough, there was already an atrata described by DOVNAR

— ZAPOLSKIJ considered to be a synonym of Monostegia cingulata var. nigra KNW. Since CINGOVSKI'S description no one has revised the generic name of his species, though obviously in the modern strict sense of the word it is not an Empria (possibly it is a Monostegia sp.), the exact position of CINGOVSKI'S species cannot be ascertained as yet because the author is not prepared to lend the type specimen for study. ("Was die Arten Tenthredopsis macedonica CING. and Empria atrata CING. betrifft, habe ich diese zwei Arten nur auf ein weiblichen Exemplaren beschrieben. Bisher gelang es mir nicht anderes Exemplares dieser Arten zu finden und deshalb kann ich-Ihnen nicht etwas schicken." (Personal communication). The new Hungarian localities of M. cingulata are: "Kőszegi hegyek, Exe. Inst. Syst. zool. Univ. Budapest, 1936. V. 19.-31, Coll. È. CSIKI" (1 ?); "Mecsek, M. Szabolcs, 1953. V. 13, leg. GEBHARDT" (10); "Pécs, Bányatelep, 1954, V. 28. leg. KASZAB" (1 O); "Vállus, Büdöskút környéke, Fekete hegy, 1964, V. 26, leg. PAPP" (6 9); "Zalalövő, 1967. V. 18, leg.FÉK M." (1 Ç); "Zalaszántó, Kovácsihegv, erdő széle, 1965. VI. 28, leg. TÓTH" (1 9 )î "Bakony, Pintérhegy, 1973. VIII. 4, leg. TÓTH—SINKOVICZ" (1 Q ). (HNHM, BTMZ). 6. Monsoma putverata (RETZIUS, 1783) — At a first glance it looks like Strongylogaster lineata CHRIST, and is just as scarce, but in several significant structural features differs from that species. Three authors recorded it from the Carpathian Basin but no one mentioned it from Hungary. The new localities are as follows: "Bükk-h., Nagyvisnyó, 1956. V. 5.-12., leg. KASZAB—SZÉKESY" (1 9); "Bükk-h., Nagyrét, 1956. V. 29, leg. KAKASSNÉ" (1 9). "Lesencistvánd, láprét, 1973. V. 4., leg. Tóth" (1 9). (HNHM, BTMZ). 7. Metallus gei (BRISCHKE, 1883) — This very small sawfly mining in various Geum species was never recorded from Hungary before. Sometimes the larvae are reported as pests, still the adults are rarely collected. The species may have two generations in a year. In the northern parts of Europe it reproduces parthenogenetically, since there only females have been found. The first Hungarian specimen is a male, captured in the southern part of Hungary : "Szederkény, 1965. IX. 6, leg. ZOMBORI". Two more females originate from "Olaszfalu, Alsópere környéke, 1966. VII. 11-14., leg. PAPP" and "Bakony: Hétházpuszta, 1973. VII. 15., leg. TÓTH". (HNHM, BTMZ). 8. Metallus pumilus (KLUG, 1814) — Thissmall, almost entirely black species is mining in different Rubus species. The first Hungarian specimen was collected right back in 1909, but was wrongly identified as "FenuseUa Thomsoni KNW." which is known today as Projenusa thomsoni, however, this latter species has not yet been found in Hungary. Since the first specimen, another three have come forward from our country. The data are as follows: "Simontornva (Kert), 1909, 7. 14, PILLICH, Coll. Z. Kiss E." (1 çf); "Csepel, GAMMEL A., (19)28. IV. 26, 109/2" (1 9 ); "Hu., Nyírség, Bátorliget, leg. MÓCZÁR, (1)949. VI. 7-10, láp, I. sz." (1 9); "Tatatóváros, 1959. V. 28, leg. SÓLYMOSNÉ" (1 çf); "Monostorapáti, Boncsos-tó, 1962. VII. 19, leg. PAPP, Cychorium. intybus" (l 9)- (HNHM, BTMZ).