Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Symphyta to ID

Posted by Makro Freak on 20-05-2009 17:33
#1
Hi,

I found this Wasp under an oak tree, surrounded by meadow in Munich, Germany. Size was aprox 10mm. I have 3 books about wasps which are relatively comprehensive, but I wonder that they spent allways less than 2 pages for Symphyte. It's all about Vespidae. Why ?


www.makrofreak.de/ID/Wasp_ID.jpg


Thanks for your help.

Richie

Posted by cthirion on 20-05-2009 23:20
#2
It would be better here!
http://www.forum.hymis.de/viewforum.php?f=17

Posted by Jose Luis RC on 21-05-2009 01:49
#3
It is Tenthredopsis. and very probably sordida A female . Regards. José Luis Ruiz de la Cuesta.

Posted by Makro Freak on 24-05-2009 16:14
#4
Thank you very much for your help.

Best

Richie

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 26-05-2009 11:26
#5
I have 3 books about wasps which are relatively comprehensive, but I wonder that they spent allways less than 2 pages for Symphyte.


Here's something that's freely available:

O. Schmiedeknecht - Die Hymenopteren Mitteleuropas nach ihren Gattungen und zum grossen Teil auch nach ihren Arten analytisch bearbeitet (1907) p.753-795 dealing with Symphyta (www.archive.org)

E. Enslin - Die Blatt- und Holzwespen (Tenthrediniden) Mitteleuropas, insbesondere Deutschlands (in Die Insekten Mitteleuropas, Band III, 3, 1914) (www.archive.org)

Symphyta - in Key to the insects of Russian Far East. Vol. IV. Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera. Pt. 5 (2007), p. 909-961, good section on Pamphiliidae, Tenthredinoidea: only lists of spp. with distribution and foodplants (in Russian) (http://www.zin.ru/labs/insects/hymenopt/projects/Key-FE/)

Numerous papers by Japanese authors (Shinohara, Togashi, etc.)