Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 70. (Budapest 1978)

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

Holotype female: "Körösladány 1963. VI. 29", "leg. MÓCZÁR L.", "Holotypus Q Fenella calenata sp. n. det. L. ZOMBORI, 1977." — Paratypes: "Sződ 1922. BÍRÓ. VIII", "26. VIII." (on reverse of label) 1 9 ; "pityer 1928. SZILÁDY VIII. 19." 1 ?. The holotype and the two paratypes are deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. The new species belongs to the nigrita-group of species. It may, however, at once be separated from the other congeners of this species-group by the peculiar cigar-shaped depression in the triangular area below the frons. This feature distantly resembles that one of E. excavata ZOMBORI, 1978 since the depression is intact all round, it does not open in any direction, but the shape in excavata is large and phylliform. 7. Fenella nigrita WESTWOOD, 1840 — Apparently, this is the commonest species of the genus Fenella in Europe, since most faunal lists make reference to this name. It is a small mining sawfly developing in Agrimonia eupatoria, Potentilla reptans. Hungarian localities: 1. Vácz, Tudósdomb, BÍRÓ, 1929. VI. 2, 1 9-2. B.[alaton]-Széplak, Tóközpuszta, 1953. VI. 25, leg. BAJÁRI, 19.3. Bakony hgs., Gerence ptk., 1959. V. 20, leg. MÓCZÁR L., 19.4. Márkó, Menyeke, 1959. V. 29, leg. PAPP JENŐ, 1 9. 5. Fenyőfő, 1959. VIII. 8. leg. PAPP J., 19-6. Németbánya, Vadászház környéke, 1967. V. 29-IV. 2, leg. PAPP J., 1 2.7. Csévharaszt, nyíres [beech-wood], 1968. VI. 5, leg. SÓLYMOSNÉ, 1 9 . (HNHM, BTMZ). 8. Metallus albipes (CAMERON, 1875) — This is again a small, black, mining sawfly species, larvae feeding in the leaves of Rubus idaeus and R.fruticosus. BENSON (1952) made reference to this species as being a local pest in some counties of England. It is very unlikely that the species is as common as that in Hungary, since so far only one specimen has been collected: Tihany, Csúcshegy, 1967. VI. 22, leg. MÓCZÁR, 1 Q . BENSON said legs are entirely white, the Hungarian specimen has all its coxae and about basal half of fore and mid femora light brown. (HNHM). 9. Profenusa thomsoni (KONOW, 1886) — There is only one specimen of this small, though robust, leaf-mining species from Csesznek, 1976. VIII. 20, leg. ZOMBORI, 1 9 • BENSON (1952) wrote that "abdominal tergites smooth" in fact, under higher magnification it has a weak alutaceous surface sculpture. Furthermore, mesopleuron with sparse pubescence, while mesosternum not entirely smooth but with a very few scattered hairs. First cubital cross-vein quite clearly indicated, but this feature is also present in some specimens of P. pygmaea KL. Anal cell of hind wing closed (not open), as is the case in most specimens of P. pygmaea. But there are some specimens of the latter species in which the apex of the anal cell is partly faded or partly broken, i.e. the vein is discontinuous. A very good differentiating characteristic of P. thomsoni is the darkly infumated basal twothirds of fore wing while the apical third is very light. (HNHM). 10. Scolioneura betuleti (KLUG, 1814) — This is the first occasion that this species is recorded from Hungary. The larvae are mining in various species of Betula. Larvae were collected from Betula pubescens at Nagykovácsi, on the the 30th of May, 1976 and kept in jars where they continued to feed in the mines for a few more days. Then they emerged from the mine and entered the soil for pupation. On the 23rd of April, 1977 four females and three males, and on the 26th of the same month two more females emerged. According to my rearing the species has only one generation and not two as reported elsewhere in various papers. (HNHM). 11. Sterigmos ventralis (PANZER, 1799) — This very interesting species was recently revised along with its European relatives (ZOMBORI 1977). One small-sized (5.5 mm) female specimen was found mixed up with the representatives of Monophadnus spinolae KL. (det. HELLÉN). The Hungarian locality is "Pilis-Marót CSÍKI". (HNHM). 12. Stethomostus funereus (KLUG, 1814) — It is a rather elusive species, rarely collected. The first Hungarian locality is at "Tákos Bockereki e. (rdő) 1966. VI. 8, leg. SÓLYMOSNÉ" 1 (HNHM). References BENSON, R. B. (1952): Symphyta. — Hfidk. Ident. Brit. Ins., 6 (2b): 51-137. BENSON, R. B. (1968): Hymenoptera from Turkey. Symphyta. — Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Entomology, 22(4): 111-207. BÍRÓ, L. (1884): Új levéldarázs-faj. — Rov. Lapok, 1 (3): 57-58. KLUG, D. FR. (1803): Monographia Siricum Germaniae. — Berolini, p. 1-64.