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Euura myrtilloides Kopelke 1996

Description

Euura myrtilloides Kopelke, 1996

Euura (Euura) myrtilloides Kopelke, 1996: 107. Described: ♂, gall, recorded host: Salix myrtilloides. Holotype, ♂, SMF [examined]. Type locality: Norway, Finnmark, S.- Varanger, Vaggatem. Description of ♀: Kopelke (2006).

Variability. Female: Body length: 3.8–4.5mm. Male: 4.0– 4.2mm. Total number of specimens examined: 4. Genetic data. COI barcode not distinguishable from those of E. salicislapponicae, E. salicispurpureae, and E. weiffenbachiella.

Similar species. Females are most similar to E. weiffenbachiella: see key for distinguishing characters. Males of the atra subgroup are not morphologically separable.

Bionomics. Host plants: Salix myrtilloides (Kopelke 1996). Biology: Kopelke (1996, 2006). Distribution. Published records are only from Finnmark in Norway (Kopelke 1996, 2006), but galls have been found in Finland by T. Nyman. Occurrence in Sweden: not recorded, but probably occurs.

Notes

Published as part of Liston, Andrew D., Heibo, Erik, Prous, Marko, Vårdal, Hege, Nyman, Tommi & Vikberg, Veli, 2017, North European gall-inducing Euura sawflies (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae), pp. 1-115 in Zootaxa 4302 (1) on pages 59-60, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4302.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/839880

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SMF
Family
Tenthredinidae
Genus
Euura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kopelke
Species
myrtilloides
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Euura myrtilloides Kopelke, 1996 sec. Liston, Heibo, Prous, Vårdal, Nyman & Vikberg, 2017

References

  • Kopelke, J. - P. (1996) Die Euura atra - und amerinae - Gruppe in Nord- und Mitteleuropa (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Nematinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 76 (1 / 2), 93 - 113.
  • Kopelke, J. - P. (2006) Description of the female of Euura myrtilloides Kopelke 1996, with a key to the European species of the atra - group (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 86 (1), 75 - 84.