Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 67. (Budapest 1975)

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

2. Heterarthrus ochropoda (KEXJG, 1814) — It is referred to in various papers as a comparatively rare species; and has never been recorded from Hungary. There was only one female exemplar in the HNHM from ,,Szigetszentmiklós 1936. IV. 30 (coll. E. CSIKI)". On the 5th of July, 1973, the present author collected 36 leaves of Populus tremula L. from a small plantation outside Farmos. All the leaves had been minded by sawfly larvae. Out of the above number, 28 larvae were able to complete their last stage of development and accordingly each of them spun a circular cocoon of 8—10 mm in diameter. The brown cocoons were spun (5—10 days after collecting the mines) within the mine without injuring the surface of the leaf. The leaves were left undisturbed in a jar half filled with soil from the original locality. The first imago appeared on the 25th of April, 1974, the last on the 5th of May. From the 28 cocoons 27 imagines comprising 22 females and 5 males emerged through a small circular bole (c. 2 mm in diameter). It is interesting to note that no parasitic Hymenoptera emerged. (HNHM). 3. Aneugmenus padi (LINNÉ, 1761)— Fern-living sawflies are rarely encountered in the fauna of Hungary. This may be due to the relative scarcity of this host-plant, but probably also due to the insufficient number of collecting trips to those areas where it is likely to be found. Extra-Hungarian localities in the Carpathian Basin were given only by a few authors (MOCSÁRY 1897a; CHYZER 1901; MÜLLER 1922). L. MÓCZÁR (1938b) also published A. padi (= stramineipes KL.) from Kőszeg, but the identification proved to be incorrect and his species turned out to be A. coronatus KL. also a rare species. The first specimen of A. padi L. was secured in the Mecsek Mountains (7. VI. 1955, leg. MÓCZÁR). Recently a female specimen was collected in the Bakony Mountains, near the village of Fenyőfő (3rd May, 1974, leg. ZOMBORI), when a rather scanty stand of Pteridium aquilinum (L.) KUHN was swept by a net. (HNHM, BTMZ). 4. Atoposelandria fuerstenbergensis (KONOW 1885) — This species also feeds on ferns» and is known to the present author only through a few specimens. According to the literature, it is a very'rare species (ENSLIN 1913; OCHOVTSEV 1951). In early May one female specimen was collected in the Bakony Mountains in the vicinity of the village of Fenyőfő (3rd May, 1974, leg. ZOMBORI), when a small stand of Pteridium aquilinum (L.) KUHN was swept by a net. As far as the author is aware, the above genus and species have never been recorded from the Carpathian Basin, thus, both taxa are considered to be new to this geographical region. (BTMZ). 5. Strongylogaster xanthocera (STEPHENS, 1835) — Again a species attached to ferns. This rather elongate, locally perhaps common species has not been found in Hungary before. It occurs only sporadically in Europe, and in the Carpathian Basin it is known from one locality only (Nagyszeben • Hermannstadt = Sibiu) in Transylvania (MÜLLER 1922). The first locality in Hungary is at Fenyőfő in the Bakony Mountains (3rd May, 1974, leg. ZOMBORI), where one male specimen was captured while sweeping a small stand of Pteridium aquilinum (L.) KUHN. On the following day, drizzling with rain, another male specimen was singled by hand from the stem of a P. aquilinum (4th May, 1974, leg. TÓTH). (BTMZ). 6. Athalia Scutellariae CAMERON, 1880 — Among the Athalia this is one of the smallest species. Its main characteristics distinguishing it from the other European species in the genus is that it has an inner tooth on the claws. The other Athalia- have simple claws. Apparently it is a widely distributed taxon in Europe, its nominal form spreading as far as West Asia. Since, however, ENSLIN did not recognize it as a valid species, it had not been reported from Hungary. In the past ten years the present author identified several thousands of Athalia from Hungary and found only one male specimen of Scutellariae in the collection of BTMZ. It was taken near the shore of Lake Balaton, at Balatonalmádi: Budatava (10. VIII. 1973, leg. TÓTH). 7. Protemphytus perla (KLUG, 1814) — This peculiarly coloured, delicate species has has never been taken in Hungary before, though, apparently it had been found in Europe in several countries. One male specimen was collected by a Malaise-trap, erected in a birch-wood, at Csévharaszt (collecting site allocated within the International Biological Programme), on the 29th May, 1968, leg. MÓCZÁR. (HNHM). A similarly coloured species was recently described by BOKOTEY (1962) from the