Euura virilis Zirngiebl 1955

• Main Authors: Liston, Andrew D., Heibo, Erik, Prous, Marko, Vårdal, Hege, Nyman, Tommi, Vikberg, Veli
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Tenthredinidae; Euura; Euura virilis; Marko; Rif; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4902002; https://zenodo.org/record/4902002

Euura virilis (Zirngiebl, 1955) Pontania femoralis var. virilis Zirngiebl, 1955: 67 –68. Described: ♀, ♂, larva, gall, recorded host: Salix sp. Lectotype, ♀, designated by Kopelke (1990b), ZSM [examined]. Type locality: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate, Naturschutzgebiet Dannstadt. Pontania virilis : Kopelke (1990b); new status. Euura virilis : Beneš (2015b). Pontania rifana Lacourt, 1973: 190 –192. Described: ♀. Holotype, ♀, JLLP [not examined]. Type locality: Morocco, Rif, Djebel Tidighine. Synonymy with P. virilis by Kopelke (1990b). Variability. Female: Body length: 2.9–4.5mm. Male: 2.7–3.3mm. Adults from further south in Europe tend to be much paler than, for example, those from the north of Germany. Reared females from the French Pyrenees (leg. E. Heibo) are themselves variable in colour; in the palest, the whole clypeus, supraclypeal area, pronotum, mesepisternum apart from sterno-pleural black patch, part of mesoscutellum, entire femur and most of apex and sterna of abdomen are yellow-brown. North African specimens are intermediate in colour to those from the Pyrenees and N. Germany. Total number of specimens examined: 30. Genetic data. The COI barcode of a single specimen identified as virilis (GenBank accession EU084002, from Germany) diverges from the next nearest of other dolichura group species by approximately 4.9% (see also Nyman et al. 2007). However, newer COI sequences of dolichura group larvae collected from S. purpurea (which should therefore be E. virilis ), locate at two different positions in the tree (Nyman, unpublished). Bionomics. Host plants: Salix purpurea (Kopelke 1994), S. viminalis × purpurea (Beneš 2015a). Biology: Kopelke (1985, as P. dolichura ), Zirngiebl (1955). Distribution. North Africa (Morocco: Lacourt 1999), through most of South and Central Europe (Taeger et al. 2006), north to Schleswig-Holstein in Germany (Blank et al. 2001) and Estonia (Taeger et al. 2006). Occurrence in Sweden: no records from Fennoscandia, but presence in southern Sweden possible. : 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 72, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4302.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/839880 : {"references": ["Zirngiebl, L. (1955) Entomologische Miscellen II. Folge. Pfalzer Heimat, 6 (2), 65 - 69.", "Kopelke, J. - P. (1990 b) Der taxonomische Status von Pontania dolichura (Thomson 1871) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 70 (4 - 6), 271 - 279.", "Benes, K. (2015 b) Siropasi blanokridli (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) chranene krajinne oblasti Krivoklatsko. Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of the Krivoklatsko Protected Landscape Area (Central Bohemia). Bohemia centralis, 33, 143 - 173.", "Lacourt, J. (1973) Deux nouvelles especes de Nematinae du Maroc (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles et Physiques du Maroc, 53 (1 - 2), 189 - 192.", "Kopelke, J. - P. (1994) Die Arten der Pontania dolichura - Gruppe in Mittel- und Nordeuropa (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Nematinae). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 74 (1 - 2), 127 - 145.", "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.", "Kopelke, J. - P. (1985) Uber die Biologie und Parasiten der gallenbildenden Blattwespenarten Pontania dolichura (Thoms. 1871), P. vesicator (Bremi 1849) und P. viminalis (L. 1758) (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae). Faunistisch-okologische Mitteilungen, 5 (11 / 12), 331 - 344.", "Lacourt, J. (1999) Repertoire des Tenthredinidae ouest-palearctiques (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de France, 3, 1 - 432.", "Blank, S. M., Deters, S., Drees, M., Janicke, M., Jansen, E., Kraus, M., Liston, A. D., Ritzau, C. & Taeger, A. (2001) Symphyta. In: Dathe, H. H., Taeger, A. & Blank, S. M. (Eds.), Verzeichnis der Hautflugler Deutschlands (Fauna Germanica 4). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte, Beiheft, 7, pp. 8 - 27."]}