Capture in Cne Anost (Dépt. Saône-et-Loire - France) - 19 V 2008
Length : 8.7/8.9 mm
======
Biblio :-
Enslin 1912/1918 : Die Tenthredinoidea Mitteleuropas - p.204/205
-
Macek 2010 : Taxonomy ... Strongylogaster ... - in "Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae - vol.50(1) p.253/271"
-
Zhelokhovtsev 1988 : in Medvedev (Ed.) - Keys ... USSR. III. Hym. Part 6 Symphyta (Translation in English 1994)
-----
Key of Genus see :
viewtopic.php?f=375&t=37914&hilit=+selandriinae[
lineata =
multifasciata]
----
For all the Authors the coloring of Antennae (& Legs) is quoted in the first at all, but all do not see it in the same way !
* The
Macek’s key does not envisage the intermediate characteristics (for example the Antennae are black
or yellow to reddish).
The coloring of Femora 3 is not significant.
The coloring of Sternite 7 is inaccurate for multifasciata (or is it the base of the Sexual Organs placed after ?)
* The
Zhelokhovtsev’s key uses a criterion on the depth of the apical notch on the Sternite 7 (but I have a bad binocular magnifying glass !)
The criterion on the length of sub-apical tooth on Tarsi 3 is it reliable ?
* The
Enslin’s key is not lucid as regards the colorings
All our french captures (in 6 departments : from the Oise to Jura) were made in woody or forest zones, except one.
It well seems that only the extreme colorings allow to identify with certainty the species.
* Antennae with Flagellum entirely black ==>
multifasciata... All have the ventral apex of Abdomen entirely red or very mainly red (as shows it the photo attached of
multifasciata)
* Antennae with Flagellum partially black
... A single french capture : the ventral apex of Abdomen is entirely black (see photo)
* Antennae entirely yellow to reddish ==>
xanthoceraBeing color of the Sexual Organs, our capture is
xanthocera (confirmed by 3 photos in
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Ta ... xid=339651)
----
NB :
xanthocera &
multifasciata have the same habitus
---
S. xanthocera &
multifasciata was also captured in Italy
