Pseudaprosthema Gussakovskij, 1935

Basov, S. A., 2024, Illustrated key to the Palaearctic genera of the sawfly family Argidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta), with taxonomic notes, Russian Entomological Journal 33 (4), pp. 466-476 : 472

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.33.4.08
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14722348
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scientific name	Pseudaprosthema Gussakovskij, 1935
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Type species: Pseudaprosthema barbara Gussakovskij, 1935 .

Body size about 5.0 mm. Labial palps with 4 segments, maxillary palps with 6 segments. Right mandible with basal tooth. Antennae of males bifurcate. Fore wings with 4 cells Rs; cell R open; vein 2r–m present; vein Sc present; vein B of fore wing joins vein R well before (longer than vein Sc) junction point of vein M; pterostigma large; cell 2A open. Cell A of hind wing open. All tibiae without preapical spurs.

The genus is distributed in the Palaearctic (West) region . Number of species: World and Palaearctic — 1. Lacourt [2020] synonymized all three species with each other, but noted that this requires further verification with a re-examination of the type material .