Endelomyia filipendulae Lacourt, 1998 *

Liston, Andrew, Prous, Marko & Macek, Jan, 2019, On Bulgarian sawflies, including a new species of Empria (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 66 (1), pp. 85-105 : 91-92

Endelomyia filipendulae Lacourt, 1998 *

Material.

Burgas: 1♂ (DEI-GISHym31826), Burgas 8 km SE, 40 m, 42.432N, 27.527E, 10.04.2018. Swept from low vegetation containing much Filipendula vulgaris .

The females of Endelomyia filipendulae are morphologically not easily separable from those of E. aethiops (Gmelin, 1790) using the ovipositor characters illustrated by Lacourt (1998). However, these species have clearly different COI barcodes ( Schmidt et al. 2017) and different host plants: respectively, Filipendula vulgaris and Rosa species ( Liston et al. 2006). Males of E. filipendulae were previously unknown and those of E. aethiops are rare. As far as we are aware, the penis valve of E. aethiops has not been figured. The penis valve of the Bulgarian E. filipendulae specimen is illustrated in Figure 40 .

Endelomyia filipendulae was previously only known from France, Germany, and Italy ( Schmidt et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 40. Endelomyia filipendulae DEI-GISHym 31826 penis valve.