Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok XI. - Natura Somogyiensis 26. (Kaposvár, 2015)
Haris A.: A new Birmindia Malaise, 1947 species from Nepal (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
70 Natura Somogyiensis Description of the new species Birmindia godavariensis spec. nov. (Figs. 1 and 2) Holotype: female: Nepal: Bagmati, SE Godavari, 1700-2000 m, Pulchowki, 26. 04. 1997, 27° 34' 56.4" N 85° 23' 4.8" GPS, leg. E. and J. Hiittinger and F. Tod. Body black: white: palpi, labrum, scape, hind margin of pronotum, tegula, abdominal stemites (except last stemite); dark blackish brown: abdominal tergites 2-5. Legs completely white only hind tarsus and apical ring of hind tibia (apical 1 /5th of hind tibia) brown. Wings hyaline, costa, subcosta, veins brownish black. OOL : POL : OCL: 10 : 11:10. Ratios of antennal joints: 5 : 5 : 25 : 27 : 23 : ?. Head behind the eyes very short, about as wide as diameter of anterior ocellus and strongly contracted. Frontal area large and sunken. Frontal ridge elevated significantly connecting inner margines of eyes just below antennae. Head all over with dense, large and shallow punctures, hardly shiny. Clypeus widely emarginated, clypeal emargination about 0.3x as deep as clypeal median length. Gena about as wide as half diameter of anterior ocellus. Hind orbit very narrow about as wide as diameter of anteriror ocellus. Postoccipital carina reaching up to 2/3 of eyes. Eyes large. Mesonotal lobes very densely and finely granulated nearly matt. Mesopleuron, mesepistemum and mesostemum smooth and shiny. Prepectus present. Abdominal tergites 1 and 2 smooth and shiny. Other tergites with fine surface sculpture, shiny. Length of inner hind tibial spur : length of hind basitarsus: 15 : 44. Claw with small inner tooth, basal lobe not visible. Sawsheath long and narrow. Length: 5.6 mm. In Saini 2006, the new species runs to Birmindia turneri Malaise, 1947. In Birmindia turneri Malaise, tegula is black, pedicel and basal half of 3rd antennal segment are pale, scape is longer than pedicel, clypeus is truncate. In the new species, tegula is white, pedicell and 3rd antennal segment are totally black, scape and pedicell are equal and clypeus is widely emarginated. Acknowledgement I express my grateful thanks to Dr. Fritz Gusenleitner for loaning me to study the material.
