Forum Entomologi Italiani

Capture in Cne : Le-Petit-Abergement (Dépt. Ain) -16 VI 1995
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Biblio :
- Benson 1952 : RES - Handbooks ... Symphyta ... Vol. VI 2(b)
.... http://www.royensoc.co.uk/sites/default ... art02b.pdf
- Enslin 1912/1918 : Die Tenthredinoidea Mitteleuropas - 1912/1918
- Zhelokhovtsev 1988 : in Medvedev (Ed.) - Keys ... USSR. III. Hym. Part 6 Symphyta (Translation in English 1994)
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Det.of Genus (sub-Genus) : viewtopic.php?f=375&t=38250&hilit=+emphytus
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Characteristics of our capture :
* A : Abdomen almost entirely black with whitish band on 5th Tergite
* B : Femora 3 mainly red/yellow
* C : Stigma one-colored (without white base)
* D : Femora, Tibiae & Tarsi 3 entirely reddish
Thus A & B & C & D --> sp. truncatus

[The coloring of 4th Tergite (as on our capture) is not frequent]

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truncatus. was also captured in Italy