Tenthredo habenata Konow, 1907

Taeger, Andreas, París, Mercedes & Nieves-Aldrey, Jose Luis, 2014, The type specimens of sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Zootaxa 3790 (1), pp. 103-138 : 121

Tenthredo habenata Konow, 1907

A valid species, Tenthredo habenata Konow, 1907 .

Types. Tenthredo habenata Konow, 1907b: 172–173 . Syntypes ♀, “ Sikkim ”. Lectotype ♀, hereby designated, (MNCN_ Ent 100195 MNCN Cat. Tipos Nº 8133, Fig. 24 , see also http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.759628). Type locality: India, Sikkim. Paralectotype: ♀ ( SDEI, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.759631), “ Sikkim ” .

Discussion. Oehlke & Wudowenz (1984) considered the paralectotype to be a questionable holotype, and Saini (2007: 116) implied that the specimen is the holotype. The two examined type specimens look rather different in coloration. The lectotype has the abdominal tergites mainly pale with black bases, whereas in the paralectotype the tergites are black with pale apical triangular spots in the middle. Most likely Konow’s “segmentorum abdominalium fasciis magis minusve latis flavidis” refers to this variablity. Furthermore, the black color of the tips of femora and tibiae and the black mark on the mesopleura is only distinct in the paralectotype, whereas in the lectotype these dark parts are brown. It is not possible to exclude that the rather pale color of the lectotype is a result of a bad conservation of the specimen, but it seems to be more likely that these parts never were black as in the paralectotype. Currently, the species is not placed in a subgenus.

Figures

FIGURE 24. Tenthredo habenata, lectotype ♀. a. dorsal, scale 5 mm; b. lateral; c. head and thorax dorsal; d. head and thorax lateral; e. face; f. labels.