Euura freyja

• Main Authors: Liston, Andrew, Vikberg, Veli, Mutanen, Marko, Nyman, Tommi, Prous, Marko
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Tenthredinidae; Euura; Euura freyja; Abisko; Ranin; Northern Finland; Utsjoki
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/8225915; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8225915

Euura freyja (Liston, Taeger & Blank, 2009) Figures 6, 16A–B, 18E–F, Fig. 21F–G Pontopristia analis Lindqvist, 1961: 75–76. Described: holotype ♀ (http://id.luomus.fi/GL.9215; originally private collection O. Ranin, incorporated in private collection V. Vikberg, and now deposited in MZH; examined), paratype ♁. Published type locality: Utsjoki [northern Finland]. Secondary homonym in Euura and Amauronematus of Amauronematus analis Konow, 1897 (= Euura stenogaster (Förster, 1854)). Nematus (Pontopristia) analis: Zhelohovcev, 1988 Amauronematus (Pontopristia) analis: Liston, 1995. Pontopristia montana Lindqvist, 1961: 76–77. Described: holotype ♀ (BMNH, examined), paratypes, ♀ ♁. Published type locality: Sweden, Abisko. Secondary homonym in Euura of Nematus montanus Zaddach, 1883 (= Euura montana (Zaddach, 1883)). New synonym. Amauronematus (Pontopristia) montana: Liston, 1995; misspelling. Euura oreophila Liston & Prous, in Prous et al. 2014: 53. Replacement name for P. montana. Amauronematus freyja Liston, Taeger & Blank in Blank et al. 2009: 9–10. Replacement name for P. analis. Euura freyja: Sundukov, 2017. Diagnosis. Female: Readily distinguished from other E. amentorum group females by its more slender body (Fig. 6A). Other useful characters are the distally wide valvulae 3 (Fig. 6D: only similarly wide in E. amentorum), and the blackish fore wing costa and pterostigma (Fig. 6A–B), at least in fresh specimens, which are only similarly dark in E. itelmena and E. pohjola sp. n. Male (Figs 6E–F): Resembles E. microphyes, including penis valve, but valvispina in E. freyja basally broader. If a constant character, the more extensively pale apical abdominal sterna of E. freyja (Fig. 6F: parts of 6 and 7 as well as 9) might distinguish it from other species (at most sternum 9 pale). Description. Female (Fig. 6A–B). Body length 4.0– 5.5 mm. Black. More or less pale are: labrum and mandibles; femora, tibiae, bases of tarsomeres 1; terga 9, 10, cerci, medial projection of hypopygium. Wing veins dark; fore ...