Dolerus possilensis Cameron 1882

• Main Authors: Liston, Andrew, Mutanen, Marko, Heidemaa, Mikk, Blank, Stephan M., Kiljunen, Niina, Taeger, Andreas, Viitasaari, Matti, Vikberg, Veli, Wutke, Saskia, Prous, Marko
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Tenthredinidae; Dolerus; Dolerus possilensis; Andreas; Marko; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7019633; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7019633

Dolerus possilensis Cameron, 1882 Notes. Dolerus possilensis Cameron, 1882a: 178-179. ♀. Syntypes (assumed). Type locality: Possil Marsh near Glasgow, Scotland. Lectotype ♀ hereby designated, labelled: "B.M. TYPE HYM. 1.573" [printed], " Dolerus possilensis Cam.", "Cameron 96-76. [printed] Possil" [handwritten], "B.M. TYPE HYM. [printed] Dolerus possilensis (Cameron 1882)", " Lectotypus [printed] Dolerus possilensis Cameron, 1882 [handwritten in block letters] M.Heidemaa design. [printed]" [red]. Most of the abdomen missing. Ovipositor preparation apparently lost, but probably figured in Cameron (1882a: plate XIX, fig. 8). BMNH. Probably a parthenogenetic species: no male has ever been recorded. The only known Fennoscandian record is from Sweden: 1♀ [labelled as Dolerus sp.] “Resarö Waxholm / 6 1915", leg. R. Malaise, NHRS. New to the Swedish fauna. Published as part of Liston, Andrew, Mutanen, Marko, Heidemaa, Mikk, Blank, Stephan M., Kiljunen, Niina, Taeger, Andreas, Viitasaari, Matti, Vikberg, Veli, Wutke, Saskia & Prous, Marko, 2022, Taxonomy and nomenclature of some Fennoscandian Sawflies, with descriptions of two new species (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), pp. 151-218 in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 69 (2) on page 151, DOI:10.3897/dez.69.84080