Neurotoma Konow, 1897

Shinohara, Akihiko, Kramp, Katja & Taeger, Andreas, 2022, The Pamphiliinae of the Russian Far East and Korea (Hymenoptera, Pamphiliidae), Zootaxa 5167 (1), pp. 1-251 : 58

Genus Neurotoma Konow, 1897

Neurotoma Konow, 1897a: 18 .

See Taeger et al. (2010) for more synonymy.

The characters of this genus are as noted above for the tribe and this is regarded as a monophyletic group well supported by morphological and molecular evidence.

In this genus Shinohara (2002b) proposed six species groups, of which three ( N. fausta , N. mandibularis and N. nemoralis groups) were included in our COI analysis and only one ( N. nemoralis group) was included in the NaK analysis. In the COI tree ( Fig. 137 ), the N. mandibularis group ( N. mandibularis and N. coreana ) was recovered as monophyletic with 100% UFBoot support, but this clade as well as N. fausta (representative of the N. fausta group) were within the paraphyletic assemblage of the N. nemoralis group (five species). Possibly, the N. fausta and N. mandibularis groups may form a group of specialized species within the more generalized, speciose, and heterogeneous N. nemoralis group.

This genus contains 23 species worldwide, including six species recorded from the Russian Far East and South Korea ( Shinohara et al. 2018a). Of the six species, two belong to the N. mandibularis group and four to the N. nemoralis group.

The larvae of Neurotoma species feed on the host leaves, usually gregariously in webs. The known host plants are arborescent Rosaceae ( N. fausta and N. nemoralis groups) and Fagaceae ( Quercus spp. ) ( N. satoi and N. mandibularis groups).

Figures

FIGURE 137. Condensed ML tree based on CO1 gene sequences, with details of Neurotoma.