Gokhman V.E. 2024. Morphometric analysis of chromosomes of sawflies of the genera Tenthredo Linnaeus, 1758 and Athalia Leach, 1817 (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Athaliidae) // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.33. No.4: 477–482 [in English].
Russian Entomological Society, Moscow, Russia.
Vladimir Gokhman vegokhman@hotmail.com ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9909-7559
doi: 10.15298/rusentj.33.4.09
ABSTRACT. Morphometric analysis of chromosomes of twelve sawfly species of the families Tenthredinidae and Athaliidae, namely, Tenthredo arcuata Forster, 1771, T. campestris Linnaeus, 1758, T. mesomela Linnaeus, 1758, T. omissa (Förster, 1844), T. velox Fabricius, 1798, T. vespa Retzius, 1783 (in all these species n = 10), T. amoena Gravenhorst, 1807 and T. brevicornis (Konow, 1886) (n = 18 in both), as well as of Athalia bicolor Serville, 1823, A. circularis (Klug, 1815) (in both n = 6), A. scutellariae Cameron, 1880 (n = 7) and A. rosae (Linnaeus, 1758) (n = 8) was performed. Karyotype differences between species with the same chromosome numbers have been revealed. Possible implications of chromosome morphometry for the sawfly taxonomy and phylogeny were discussed.
KEY WORDS: Hymenoptera, Symphyta, Tenthredinidae, sawflies, chromosome morphometry.