Antargidium Morice

Schmidt, Stefan, 2012, Revision of the Australian sawfly genus Antargidium (Hymenoptera, Symphyta, Argidae) with description of two new species, Zootaxa 3180, pp. 47-56 : 48

Antargidium Morice

Antargidium Morice, 1919: 254 (key). Type species: Hylotoma apicale W.F. Kirby, 1894 , by monotypy.

Antargidium: Forsius 1927: 19 (key to genera); Benson 1934: 228 –230 (diagnosis, illustration, distribution); Malaise 1941: 131 (key to genera); Benson 1963: 632 –634 (classification, distribution, key to genera); Taeger et al. 2010: 121 (catalogue).

Diagnosis. Small, body size less than 7 mm. Body smooth and shining. Antenna short, in female at most slightly longer than width of head, in male about 1.3–1.5 × as long as width of head; pedicel short, almost transverse. Malar space narrow, about half as long as maximum width of pedicel. Head with transorbital carina ( Benson 1963, fig. 4), in dorsal view parallel or slightly narrowing behind eyes. Clypeus with front margin excised. Compound eyes slightly converging below. Tibiae with two apical spurs, middle and hind tibiae with one subapical spur. Females of species occurring in eastern Australia have the sawsheath equipped with a dorsal process. In species from Western Australia the sawsheath is simple without dorsal process.

Distribution. Australia: New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia.