Ábrahám Levente: Válogatott tanulmányok II. - Natura Somogyiensis 9. (Kaposvár, 2006)

Haris Attila: Sawflies from Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands (Hymenoptera, enthredinidae) - Levéldarazsak Szachalinról és a Kuril-szigetekről (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae)

Natura Somogyiensis 9 187-200 Kaposvár, 2006 Sawflies from Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) HARIS ATTILA H-8142 Úrhida, Petőfi u. 103, Hungary, e-mail: attilaharis@yahoo.com HAMS, A.: Sawflies from Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Abstract: 61 Tenthredinidae species are recorded from Sakhalin and 48 species from the Kuril Islands. New species are: Heterarthrus aihinoensis spec, nov., Masaakia kichizoi spec, nov., Pristiphora pseudomelanocarpa spec, nov., Pristiphora anivskiensis spec, nov., Amauronematus pseudoleptocephalus spec, nov., Nematus ermolenkoi spec. nov. and Nematus kunasirensis spec. nov. Keywords: new species, Tenthredo, Heterarthrus, Masaakia, Pristiphora, Amauronematus, Nematus, Symphyta Sakhalin (Saghalien) and the Kuril Islands belong to the Japanese faunistic area. Their fauna well agrees with the Japanese islands only with few continental (Siberian and Holarctic) elements. Sakhalin was explored by Russians in the 17th century and subsequently colonized by Russia and Japan in the 18th and 19th century. It was under joint Russo-Japanese control (formalized by the Treaty of Shimoda, 1855) until it passed entirely to Russia in 1875, when Japan obtained the Kuril Islands in return. Sakhalin became a czarist place of exile. By the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905), Russia retained the portion of Sakhalin north of lat. 50° N and Japan obtained the remainder. The Japanese territory was named Karafuto, and this name was sometimes applied to the whole island. After World War II the Japanese holdings (including Sakhalin and the Kuril islands) were transferred to the Stalinist Soviet Union and nearly all the Japanese population was repatriated. In an agreement signed in 1951 with the USSR, Japan renounced all claims to Sakhalin however the Japanese claim is still uphold to the Kuril Islands. The first investigation of the sawfly fauna was completed by the excellent Japanese entomologist Matsumura (MATSUMURA 1911). Later, Takeuchi continued his work and published several papers on the sawfly fauna of the Kuril islands and Sakhalin (TAKEUCHI 1923, 1931, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1955 and 1956). After the russian occupation, Ukrainian (ERMOLENKO 1971 and 1981) and Russian entomologists investigated the territory (KRIVOLUTSKAYA 1973; STROGANOVA 1980). Recently Shinohara et al. have published a paper on the Northern Kuril Islands in 2000. This rich material is collected by V. M. Ermolenko and donated to the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest where the collection (including type specimens) is preserved., Subgeneric position of the new species is written in brakets where it is applicable.