Euura polita (Zaddach, 1883)

Liston, Andrew D., Heibo, Erik, Prous, Marko, Vårdal, Hege, Nyman, Tommi & Vikberg, Veli, 2017, North European gall-inducing Euura sawflies (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae), Zootaxa 4302 (1), pp. 1-115 : 80-81

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4302.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4902025
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scientific name	Euura polita (Zaddach, 1883)
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Nematus politus Zaddach, 1883 [in Brischke 1883a]: pl. I(7):14 [larva, host]; text description in Brischke 1884: 167–168 [♀, ♂]. Described: ♀, ♂, larva, recorded host: Salix helix . Neotype, ♀, designated by Kopelke (2007a), SMF [examined]. Type locality: Germany, Hesse: Wetterau, Ortenberg I ( Nidder ).

Phyllocolpa polita: Kopelke (2007a) .

Euura polita: Prous et al. (2014) .

Nematus sieboldii Zaddach, 1884 [in Brischke 1884]: 171–172. Described: ♀. Syntypes stated by Zaddach to have been received from ZMHUB, but have not been located there ( Kopelke 2007a). Type locality: Danzig. Synonymy with Phyllocolpa polita by Kopelke (2007a).

Pontania leucapsis var. connata Enslin, 1915: 347 . Described: adult, sex not specified. Lectotype, ♀, designated by Kopelke (2007a), ZSM [examined]. Type locality: Germany, Gotha. Synonymy with Phyllocolpa polita by Kopelke (2007a).

Variability. Female: Body length: 2.8–4.0mm. Ratio of length flagellomere 2 / height of eye 0.88-1.00. Male: 2.9– 3.8mm. No significant variability in colour pattern of specimens examined. Total number of specimens examined: 12.

Genetic data. COI barcodes of species of this complex, as well as E. oblita , are highly similar, and not useful for identification.

Similar species. Females are most similar to the other segregates with typically extensively pale orbits: E. plicadaphnoides , E. prussica .

Bionomics. Host plants: Salix purpurea ( Kopelke 2007a) , Salix purpurea × silesiaca ( Beneš 2015a) . Biology: Beneš (1968a; as Phyllocolpa leucapsis ), Kopelke (2007a).

Distribution. Mainly in Central Europe ( Kopelke 2007a), but also Greece: 1 fem., 11.5.2007, Nom. Evritania, Karpenisi E 4km, Agios Nikolaos, 900 m., 38.91666°N 21.78333°E, leg. Liston (SDEI) [first record from Greece]. Occurrence in Sweden: published records; Skåne ( Benander 1966, as Pontania leucapsis reared from Salix purpurea ), Västergötland ( Wahlgren 1960, as galls of Pontania leucapsis on S. purpurea ).