Rhogogaster polaris Lindqvist 1964 ...

• Main Authors: Taeger, Andreas, Viitasaari, Matti
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Tenthredinidae; Rhogogaster; Rhogogaster polaris; Norway; Andreas; Målselva
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6113755; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6113755

Rhogogaster polaris Lindqvist, 1964 (Figs 3e, q, r, 4l, 5d, g, i, k, 6f, o) Rhogogaster polaris Lindqvist, 1964: 121. Holotype ♂ (MZLU, not examined). Type locality: Norway: Tromsö, Målselva, Kundhaug. Discussion. Benson (1965) synonymized R. polaris with R. californica (Norton, 1862), but Prous et al. (2014) treated the species as valid. The relationship between the Nearctic R. californica and the Palearctic polaris needs further investigation. Currently, the species are separated only because of their different COI barcodes (about 3 % divergence). Furthermore, the taxa have a different distribution pattern, as polaris seems to be a species with a very restricted northern distribution, whereas californica is widely distributed in the Nearctic realm (Prous et al. 2014). However, the taxonomy of the Nearctic Rhogogaster still needs to be checked, and it is uncertain if the synonymy of Tenthredopsis evansii Harrington, 1889 from Ontario and Tenthredo ripula MacGillivray, 1923a from Oregon with R. californica ... : Published as part of Taeger, Andreas & Viitasaari, Matti, 2015, European Rhogogaster s. str., with notes on several Asian species (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), pp. 369-398 in Zootaxa 4013 (3) on page 377, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/245770 ...