Workbook

Note: This is a “work in progress”. Changes may be made as I discover additional relevant information.

Identification of species in genus Pseudoperga

The matrix below is designed to aid identification of species in the genus Pseudoperga, which has the following diagnostic features:

• antennae 6-segmented

• antennae shorter than distance between eyes

• length of head behind eye same or greater than length of eye

• hind lobes of scutellum normally very short, rarely projecting beyond hind margin

Click on the matrix to download a pdf version. Images from authoritative sources of selected species follow as a further aid.

To view iNaturalist Research Grade observations of a particular Pseudoperga species, click on the name of that species in the list below. (Species without a link have no RG observations at this time).

Pseudoperga belinda Pseudoperga ferruginea Pseudoperga guerinii Pseudoperga lewisii Pseudoperga lucida Pseudoperga moricei Pseudoperga rugiceps Pseudoperga ventralis

Pseudoperga belinda = Pseudoperga nemoralis

Pseudoperga ferruginea

Pseudoperga guerinii = Pseudoperga smithii

Pseudoperga lewisii

References:

• Benson, R.B. 1939. A revision of the Australian sawflies of the genus Perga Leach, sens. lat. (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). The Australian Zoologist 9: 324-357.

• Forsius, R. 1927 On some sawflies from the Australian region (Hymenoptera Tenthredinidae). Records of South Australian Museum 3, 283-308

• Forsius, R. 1929a Notes on some little known Australian Tenthredinoidea. Notulae Entomologicae 9, 81-82

• Forsius, R. 1929b Perga titschacki, eine neue australische Tenthredinoide. Notulae Entomologicae 9, 85-86

• Froggatt, W.W. 1907 Australian Insects. Brooks et co. Sydney

• Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1844. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables et souvent non figurées de chaque genre d'animaux. Avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d'atlas a tous les traités de zoologie. VII. Insectes.

• Kirby, W.F. 1882. List of Hymenoptera, with descriptions and figures of the typical specimens in the British Museum. Vol. I. Tenthredinidae and Siricidae. London: British Museum

• Leach, W.E. 1817. The zoological miscellany; being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. Vol. 3. Shoe-Lane, London: R. and A. Taylor

• Lewis, R.H. 1837. Case of maternal attendance on the larva by an insect of the tribe of Terebrantia, belonging to the genus Perga, observed at Hobarton, Tasmania. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1: 232-234.

• Morice, F.D. 1919. Notes on Australian sawflies, especially the “Authors' Types” and other specimens in the British Museum of Natural History and the Hope Collections of the Oxford University Museum; with diagnostic synopses of the genera and species, and photographs illustrating their structural characters. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 66: 247-333, pls XI-XV.

• Rohwer, S.A. 1910. Some Australian sawflies. Entomological News 21: 467-474

• Westwood, J.O. 1880. A monograph of the sawflies composing the Australian genus Perga of Leach. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 359-379

• Wilson, F.E. 1932a. A new Victorian sawfly. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 49: 43-46.

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