The fauna of sawflies (Symphyta, Hymenoptera) in a forest of sessile oak and hornbeam with butcher’s-broom (Querco-Carpinetum serbicum aculeatetosum Jovanovic, 1951) on Mt. Avala

Abstract

In a phytocenosis of sessile oak and hornbeam with butcher?s broom (Querco-Carpinetum serbicum aculeatetosum Jovanovic 1951) on the territory of Mt. Avala, 42 species of sawflies belonging to the families Argidae Pamphiliidae and Tenthredinidae have been registered. The 42 species that were found, as many as 19 (or 45.23%) are new for the entomofauna of Serbia and Montenegro. Of these 19 species, one belongs to a genus newly recorded on our territory (the genus Cephaleia). The dominant family is the family Tenthredinidae, to which 38 of the registered species belong. The family Tenthredinidae is also dominant in this community with respect to the number of specimens caught, as only a few specimens of species of the other two families were present. The subfamily Tenthredininae is the most numerous subfamily of the family Tenthredinidae inasmuch as 19 of its species were registered in the course of two-year sampling. The most abundant species in the observed phytocenosis are species of the genus Macrophya, while the majority of species of sawflies during the research were present in the field in only small numbers.