Empria rubicola Ermolenko, 1971

Prous, Marko, Heidemaa, Mikk, Akihiko, Shinohara & Soon, Villu, 2011, Review of the sawfly genus Empria (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) in Japan, ZooKeys 150, pp. 347-380 : 360

Empria rubicola Ermolenko, 1971

Empria rubicola Ermolenko, 1971: 21-22. Type locality: Russia, Sakhalin Oblast, Novoaleksandrovsk. Holotype female, SIZ [examined].

Taxonomic affinities.

The closest species are Empria zhangi and Empria quadrimaculata (see under Empria quadrimaculata Takeuchi, 1952 for details).

Host plants.

Unknown. Holotype female and the studied paratypes (1 female, 2 males) were collected from Rubus idaeus L. subsp. melanolasius (Dieck) Focke(under the name Rubus sachalinensis in Ermolenko 1971), which is a common plant in Hokkaido.

Distribution.

East Palaearctic. Specimens studied are from Japan (Hokkaido) and Russia (Sakhalin Oblast). Most probably this species has to be removed from the list of Chinese species ( Yan et al. 2009), because Empria rubicola has clypeus and upper half of the mesepisternum black (not yellow brown) and abdominal terga 2-4 (not 2-6) each with a pair of pale patches.