Euura leucosticta (Hartig 1837) : Benes 2015
- Dataset
- North European gall-inducing Euura sawflies (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Tenthredinidae
- genus
- Euura
- species
- Euura leucosticta
description
Variability. Female: Body length: 3.8 – 5.5 mm. Male: 3.8 – 4.6 mm. Female and male: lower inner orbits, outer orbits and lateral vertex mainly pale to nearly completely black; extent of pale on pronotum variable. Total number of specimens examined: ca. 100. Genetic data. The 24 COI barcode sequences available on BOLD under the names Phyllocolpa leucosticta and P. erythropyga, from Italy and Portugal north to Finland, form a single BIN with intraspecific variability of about 1.1 %. Nearest European barcoding neighbour, about 6.6 % different, is E. polita. Bionomics. Host plants: Salix aurita, S. caprea (Kopelke 2007 a) and S. cinerea (below). Three specimens, from separate rearing batches collected on Salix cinerea at three German localities were reared by J. - P. Kopelke and determined by him as Phyllocolpa prussica, but they clearly belong to leucosticta. Biology: Kopelke (2007 a).
distribution
Distribution. Nearly throughout Europe north to Finnmark (Taeger et al. 2006, Kopelke 2007 a), Turkey, Transcaucasus (Benson 1968), North Africa (Lacourt 1999), Central Asia (Zhelochovtsev & Zinovjev 1995), Yakutia (Popov 2011). Occurrence in Sweden: published records; Skåne (Benander 1966), Blekinge, Småland, Öland, Närke, Dalarna, Gästrikland, Jämtland (Haris 2009), Västerbotten (Kopelke 2007 a). Material examined: Skåne, Småland, Västergötland, Uppland, Dalarna, Torne Lappmark.