Empria alpina Benson 1938

• Main Authors: Prous, Marko, Heidemaa, Mikk, Soon, Villu
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2011
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Tenthredinidae; Empria; Empria alpina; Dryas octopetala
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6191746; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/E0608629FF82FFD6FF49FDD1FBBAEA68

Empria alpina Benson, 1938 Empria alpina Benson, 1938: 190 –191. Type locality: Scotland, Perthshire, Breadalbane Mountains, Crags above Lochan à Lairige [UK]. Holotype Ψ, BMNH [not examined, see Notes]. Host plants. Dryas octopetala (Veli Vikberg, personal communication). Distribution. Holarctic (no Nearctic specimens were studied). The verified country records are: Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Switzerland. Key characters. Paired patches on abdominal terga 2–6 (7) unpigmented; tegulae, posterior margin of pronotum, and metatibia mostly black. Ratio of flagellum length to head breadth in females 1.6–2.1, in males 2.7–3.5, and eye length to head length 1.3–1.5. Number of serrulae 14, conspicuously papilliform (Fig. 36). Valviceps with a long basal lobe, forming very deep notch between valviceps and valvura (Fig. 53). Notes. Taxonomic identity is evident from the original description (e.g. fig 7a in Benson, 1938), but confirmed also by studying three paratypes (1 Ψ and 1 ɗ with same collecting data as holotype). Published as part of Prous, Marko, Heidemaa, Mikk & Soon, Villu, 2011, Empria longicornis species group: taxonomic revision with notes on phylogeny and ecology (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae), pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2756 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.200947