Euura myrtilloides Kopelke 1996

• Main Authors: Liston, Andrew D., Heibo, Erik, Prous, Marko, Vårdal, Hege, Nyman, Tommi, Vikberg, Veli
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Tenthredinidae; Euura; Euura myrtilloides; Marko; Norway; Vaggatem; Finnmark; Varanger
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4901969; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4901969

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. 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