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Euura myrsinifoliae Kopelke 2001

Description

Euura myrsinifoliae Kopelke, 2001

Euura (Gemmura) myrsinifoliae Kopelke, 2001: 218. Described: ♀, ♂, gall, recorded host: Salix myrsinifolia. Holotype, ♀, SMF [examined]. Type locality: Austria, Salzburg, Tauernpass, Obertauern.

Euura (Gemmura) phylicifoliae Kopelke, 2001: 220. Described: ♀, ♂, gall, recorded host: Salix phylicifolia. Holotype, ♀, SMF [examined]. Type locality: Norway, Finnmark, N.- Varanger, Tana Bru. Name preoccupied in Euura by Pontania phylicifoliae Forsius (= E. arcticornis). Syn. nov.

Euura salicisphylicifoliae Kopelke, 2014, in Prous et al. (2014): 53, replacement name for E. phylicifoliae Kopelke.

Notes on types and taxonomy. Morphologically, the nominal species myrsinifoliae and salicisphylicifoliae cannot be separated. Neither were differences found in allozymes, or COI and ITS2 sequences in northern Fennoscandian material of these segregates (Nyman 2002, Leppänen et al. 2014). Accordingly, we treat these taxa as synonyms.

Variability. Female: Body length: 2.4–4.2mm. Clypeus medially black to entirely pale. Supraclypeal area pale to black. Pronotum completely black to narrowly pale-margined. Tegula fuscous to pale yellow. Femora completely yellow to nearly entirely fuscous. Entire underside of abdomen yellow to completely black. Male: 3.5– 3.9. No significant variability in colour pattern. Total number of specimens examined: 11.

Genetic data. COI barcode not distinguishable from those of E. mucronata, and E. nigritarsis.

Similar species. Female; externally not distinguishable from others in the subgroup, except laeta, lanatae, and subgemma, or from testaceipes and venusta. Male not distinguishable from other nominal taxa in the subgroup.

Bionomics. Host plants: Salix myrsinifolia, S. phylicifolia (Kopelke 2001). Biology: Kopelke (2001).

Distribution. Central and North Europe, north to Finnmark in Norway (Kopelke 2001); in Russia probably east at least to the Taymyr Peninsula (E. mucronata on S. phylicifolia: Roininen & Danell 1997).

Occurrence in Sweden: published records; Torne Lappmark (Kopelke 2001).

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 page 65, 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
myrsinifoliae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Euura myrsinifoliae Kopelke, 2001 sec. Liston, Heibo, Prous, Vårdal, Nyman & Vikberg, 2017

References

  • Kopelke, J. - P. (2001) Die Artengruppen von Euura mucronata und E. laeta in Europa (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 81 (1 - 2), 191 - 225.
  • Nyman, T. (2002) The willow bud galler Euura mucronata Hartig (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae): one polyphage or many monophages? Heredity, 88, 288 - 295. https: // doi. org / 10.1038 / sj. hdy. 6800042
  • Roininen, H. & Danell, K. (1997) Mortality factors and resource use of the bud-galling sawfly, Euura mucronata (Hartig), on willows (Salix spp.) in arctic Eurasia. Polar Biology, 18 (5), 325 - 330.