Sawfly taxa (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) described by Edward Newman and Charles Healy
Author
Liston, Andrew D.
Author
Prous, Marko
text
ZooKeys
2014
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.398.6595
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.398.6595
1313-2970-398-83
Harpiphorus lepidus (Klug, 1818)
(
Tenthredinidae
)
Tenthredo (Emphytus) lepida
Klug, 1818: 277-278; ♀♂; type locality: Germany.
Fenusa ianthe
Newman, 1837: 261; sex not stated; type locality: "[..]woods of the metropolitan district[..]" (= around London).
Asticta ianthe
:
Newman (1838
: 484), comb. n.
Type material examined.
Fenusa ianthe
. Lectotype (hereby designated) ♀:"[handwritten] Phyllotoma"; "[handwritten] P. ianthe, Newm [printed] Det. in Coll. Ent. Club, Inst.'d 1826.
Pres'd
1927 by Club to Hope Coll."; "[red] Lectotype Fenusa ianthe Newman, 1837 des. A. Liston 2013"; "Harpiphorus lepidus (Klug, 1818) det. A. Liston 2013", "DEI-GISHym 19995". Condition: fair, but apical tarsomeres of all legs missing.
Discussion.
Although the sex of the type specimen[s] is not explicitly mentioned by Newman, the described colour pattern is found only in the female of this species.
The
comment "This insect appears generally distributed[..]" leads one to suppose that the description is based on more than one specimen. However,
Westwood (1839
: 53) wrote "This description is drawn from Mr.
Newman's
typical specimen, which he has been so kind as to lend me; and of which the fore wings are unlike, the transverse nerve separating the first two submarginal cells being obliterated in one of them[..]". The specimen here designated as lectotype possesses this abnormality (vein Rs+M is missing in the left forewing), and therefore is probably the same specimen as examined by Westwood. The synonymy of
Fenusa ianthe
with
Harpiphorus lepidus
, already adopted by
Kirby (1882)
, is confirmed.