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
86 Natura Somogyiensis Fig. 10: Head of Tenth redo alboaspida spec. nov. (photo: Haris) contracted behind eyes. Occipital carina complete. Ratios of antennal segments 1-9: 11 : 6 : 32 : 25 : 20 : 15 : 13 : 13 : 12. Antenna about as long as head and thorax combined. OOL : POL : OCL: 16:5:11. Length : width of postocellar area: 11 : 17. Length of 3rd antennal segment : longest diameter of eye: 32 : 37. Depth of clypeal emargination : median length of clypeus: 3:10. Clypeus roundly emarginated. Width of gena : diameter of anterior ocellus: 1:1. Head and thorax moderately densely covered with short, white pubescence. Mesoscutellum and mesopleuron bluntly elevated. Mesostemum without thorns. Length of hind tibia : length of ovipositor: 51 : 33. LID :IDMO: EL: 36 : 49 : 37. ICD : ITD = 13 : 42. IATS : OATS: 29 : 22. Apical tooth of claw longer than subapical. Length: 9.4 mm. The new species belongs to subgenus Tenthredella Rohwer, 1910 (Zhelochovtsev 1988). The specific name albospida means: white scutellum. In Malaise (1945) and Saini (2007), the new species runs to Tenthredo waltoni Malaise, 1945 (couplets 79 and 51). In T. waltoni, the color is significantly different, for instance: mesoscutellum with anterior 2/3 pale and posterior 1/3 black, base color of head is pale yellow, abdomen is ferruginous except blackish anterior 2/3 of propodeum and medial spot on tergite 2. In the new species, the mesoscutellum is entirely white, base color of head is ferruginous, first 5 tergites are nearly entirely black. In T. waltoni the clypeus is triangularly excised, in the new species the clypeal emargination is rounded. The new species is related to Tenthredo rubiobitava Wei, 2002 either. The differences: T. rubiobitava has mesoscutellum, mesocutellar appendage and metascutellum black, not white as in the new species. Also the antenna in the new species is more extensively light colored, not only apical 3 but apical 5 joints light which is whitish yellow, but these light antennal segments in . Tenthredo rubiobitava are reddish brown. Tenthredo rubiobitava Wei, 2002 is significaantly larger species, 13.0 mm (Wei 2002b), while the new
