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Euura scotaspis

Description

Euura scotaspis (Förster, 1854)

Nematus scotaspis Förster, 1854a: 307 –308. Described: ♀. Lectotype, ♀, designated by Kopelke (2007a), ZSM [examined]. Type locality: Germany, near Aachen.

Pontania scotaspis: Konow (1890).

Phyllocolpa scotaspis: Benson (1960a).

Nematus (Phyllocolpa) scotaspis: Zhelochovtsev (1988).

Euura (Phyllocolpa) scotaspis: Noblecourt (2016).

Nematus westermanni Boheman, 1852: 173 –174. Described: adult, sex not specified. Syntypes probably lost: could not be located at NHRS. Type locality: Sweden, Skåne, Fågelsång. Syn. nov.

Nematus westermanni Thomson, 1863: 615 –616. Described: ♀, ♂. Lectotype, ♀, designated by Kopelke (2007a), MZLU [examined]. Type locality: southern Skåne. Junior primary homonym of N. westermanni Boheman.

Notes on types and taxonomy. N. westermanni Boheman. Blank et al. (2009) stated that it is not possible to identify this taxon from its description. However, the described coloration and “Scutellum convexum, nigrum, punctulatum” actually fits E. scotaspis very well. N. westermanni Boheman is a nomen oblitum with respect to N. scotaspis Förster (nomen protectum), because the former has not been used as a valid name after 1899, whereas the latter has been used as valid in at least 25 works, published by at least 10 authors in the immediately preceding 50 years and encompassing a span of not less than 10 years (ICZN 1999: 23.9.1).

N. scotaspis. Kopelke (2007a) designated as lectotype a specimen which belongs to this taxon, but the description, as well as biological and distributional data in his subsequent paper (Kopelke 2007c) are all based on misidentified specimens of E. anglica (Vikberg 2010a).

Variability. Female: Body length: 4.6–5.7mm. Colour pattern constant in examined specimens. Male: 4–5mm [according to Benson 1958]. Total number of specimens examined: 8.

Genetic data. None available.

Bionomics. Host plants: Salix viminalis, S. schwerinii; latter in the E. Palaearctic (Vikberg 2010a). According to Beneš (2015a), S. dasyclados is also a host. Biology: Benander (1969).

Distribution. Central and North Europe, north to Skåne (Taeger et al. 2006), Afghanistan (MZLU, examined), Russia (Yakutia) (Popov 2011). Occurrence in Sweden: published records; Skåne: (Benander 1969, Coulianos & Holmåsen 1991). Material examined: Skåne.

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 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4302.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/839880

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MZLU , NHRS , ZSM
Family
Tenthredinidae
Genus
Euura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hymenoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Forster
Species
scotaspis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Euura scotaspis (Forster, 1854) sec. Liston, Heibo, Prous, Vårdal, Nyman & Vikberg, 2017

References

  • Forster, A. (1854 a) Neue Blattwespen. Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, Neue Folge, 1, 265 - 350, pls. IV - VII.
  • Kopelke, J. - P. (2007 a) The European species of the genus Phyllocolpa, part I: the leucosticta - group (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 87 (1), 75 - 109.
  • Konow, F. W. (1890) Catalogus Tenthredinidarum Europae. (Hymenopterorum XVI familiae.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1890 (2), 241 - 255.
  • Benson, R. B. (1960 a) A new genus for the leaf-edge-rolling Pontania (Hym., Tenthredinidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 96 (21), 59 - 60.
  • Noblecourt, T. (2016) Liste systematique des Hymenopteres Symphytes de France. Office National des Forets, Cellule d´etudes entomologiques, Quillan, 94 pp.
  • Boheman, C. H. (1852) Entomologiska Anteckningar under en resa i Sodra Sverige. 1851. Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 1852, 53 - 210.
  • Thomson, C. G. (1863) Entomologiska bidrag. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens forhandlingar, 19 (10), 611 - 639. [1862]
  • Blank, S. M., Taeger, A., Liston, A. D., Smith, D. R., Rasnitsyn, A. P., Shinohara, A., Heidemaa, M. & Viitasaari, M. (2009) Studies toward a World Catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa, 2254, 1 - 96.
  • Kopelke, J. - P. (2007 c) The European species of the genus Phyllocolpa, part III: the species-groups of crassispina, scotaspis, and piliserra (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 87 (2), 163 - 183.
  • Vikberg, V. (2010 a) On the taxonomy of Phyllocolpa scotaspis (Forster, 1854) and Phyllocolpa anglica (Cameron, 1877) and notes on the species groups of Phyllocolpa (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Nematinae). Sahlbergia, 15 (2), 3 - 13.
  • Benson, R. B. (1958) Hymenoptera, Symphyta. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, 6 (2 c), 139 - 258.
  • Benes, K. (2015 a) Czech species of the gall-making sawflies of the genera Phyllocolpa, Tubpontania and Pontania (Hymenoptera, Nematinae). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae, 100 (1), 137 - 156.
  • Benander, P. (1969) Om nagra Pontania - arter och deras cecidier (Hym. Symphyta). Opuscula Entomologica, 34 (1 - 2), 90 - 94.
  • Popov, A. A. (2011) Synopsis of dendro-tamnobiotic sawflies of the family Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) of Yakutia. Trudy Russkogo jentomologicheskogo obshhestva, 82, 77 - 88.
  • Coulianos, C. - C. & Holmasen, I. (1991) Galler: en falthandbok om gallbildningar pa vilda och odlade vaxter. Interpublishing, Stockholm, 317 pp.