Phymatoceropsis sibiricola Liston & Mutanen & Heidemaa & Blank & Kiljunen & Taeger & Viitasaari & Vikberg & Wutke & Prous 2022, comb. nov.

• Main Authors: Liston, Andrew, Mutanen, Marko, Heidemaa, Mikk, Blank, Stephan M., Kiljunen, Niina, Taeger, Andreas, Viitasaari, Matti, Vikberg, Veli, Wutke, Saskia, Prous, Marko
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Tenthredinidae; Phymatoceropsis; Phymatoceropsis sibiricola; karelia*; Krasnoyarsk Krai
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7019625; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/7EC34ECDD8EF59C1A26469F2E7DF75C2

Phymatoceropsis sibiricola (Zhelochovtsev, 1939) comb. nov. Figs 28, 29 Notes. Rhadinoceraea sibiricola Zhelochovtsev, 1939: 159-160. ♀. Holotype. Type locality: Russia, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Vostotschnoe (35 km SE of Minussinsk). In the original description, Zhelochovtsev (1939) compared R. sibiricola with " Rh. japonica Malaise" [ Phymatoceropsis japonica (Malaise, 1931) (Malaise 1931a)], and stated that they are "closely allied". Comparison of female P. sibiricola specimens from Finland (Fig. 28) with a Japanese female of P. japonica in the SDEI collection confirmed their similarity. As mentioned by Zhelochovtsev, P. japonica has much longer antennae, but the differences described in the structure of the frontal area and mesopleura seemed less clear. The host plant of P. sibiricola , as discovered by Vikberg in Finland (see below), is Sambucus racemosa (Adoxaceae), since verified several times by Mutanen. The host plant of P. japonica is Sambucus sieboldiana Blume (Okutani 1956), which is sometimes treated as a synonym or subspecies of S. racemosa L. Summary of records in Finland [not all more recent records are listed]. Uusimaa: Mäntsälä, Saari, 67368:34139 [60.732°N, 25.423°E], 1♀ 18.05.2010, leg. Iiro Kakko (in his collection in Hämeenlinna). South Häme: Janakkala, Laurinmäki, 67526:3695 [60.862°N, 24.599°E], 1♀ 01.06.2009, 1♀ 26.05.2010, 1♀ 31.05.2010, leg. V.Vikberg (VVT). Janakkala, Hangastenmäki, 67525:3692 [60.861°N, 24.594°E], 1♀ 21.05.2011, 2♀ 22.05.2011, 2♀ 24.05.2011, 1♀ 31.05.2011, 1♀ 16.05.2012, 1♂ 21.05.2013, 1♀ 29.05.2013; in 2014-2021 females were collected every year and a few males altogether, leg. V.Vikberg (VVT). One male and one female collected in 2013 were photographed by Pekka Malinen http://id.luomus.fi/GL.7655 (♂), http://id.luomus.fi/GL.7656 (♀). North Häme: Jyväskylä. Vikberg identified two females in photographs taken in two different years by Raimo Pelkonen. The last year was 2019, but the first year much earlier. South Karelia: Imatra, Räikkölä, 61.121°N, 28.790°E, 1♀ 30.05.2021, ...