Empria longicornis species group: taxonomic revision with notes on phylogeny and ecology (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae)
Author
Prous, Marko
Author
Heidemaa, Mikk
Author
Soon, Villu
text
Zootaxa
2011
2756
1
39
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.200947
924d73f7-9d1d-4255-ac78-83d3b78f0f0a
1175-5326
200947
Empria minuta
Lindqvist, 1968
Empria minuta
Lindqvist, 1968
: 30
.
Type
locality: vicinity of Helsinki [original description] “Umgegend von Helsingfors” [
Finland
], “N. Helsinge” [from label].
Holotype
Ψ, ZMH [examined].
Empria gussakovskii
auct. nec
Dovnar-Zapolskij, 1929
.
Host plants.
Unknown.
Distribution.
Palaearctic. The verified country records are:
Estonia
,
Finland
,
Mongolia
,
Russia
(Leningrad Oblast, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), and possibly
Sweden
(the specimen UUZM_HS).
Key characters.
Tegulae partly or largely, posterior margin of pronotum, metatibia in basal 1/3, and paired patches on abdominal terga 2–6 unpigmented. Ratio of flagellum length to head breadth in females 1.8–2.1, in males 2.8–3.0, and eye length to head length in females 1.6–1.7, in males 1.7–2.1. Number of serrulae 14–16, slightly papilliform shaped (
Fig. 38
). Valviceps with medium sized lobe, forming a notch between valviceps and valvura (
Fig. 58
); valvura to valviceps length ratio 0.63–0.72.
Notes.
There is no information about the locality and the collector of the female specimen from UUZM, but it has probably been collected from
Sweden
. The flight period of the adults might partly explain why this species has been collected rarely. The Estonian specimens were found in a Malaise trap only between
12–30 April
(3 ɗ) and
30 April – 15 May 2010
(1 Ψ).