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Euura auritae

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Euura auritae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Family: Tenthredinidae
Genus: Euura
Species:
E. auritae
Binomial name
Euura auritae
Kopelke, 2000
Synonyms[1]

E. cinerae Kopelke, 1996
E. lapponica Kopelke, 1996

Euura auritae is a species of sawfly belonging to the family Tenthredinidae (common sawflies). The larvae forms galls on willows (Salix species). It was first described by Jens-Peter Kopelke in 2000. E. auritae is one of a number of closely related species which is known as the Euura atra subgroup.

Description

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The gall is an elongate swelling that tapers into the young shoot. It is 10 millimetres (0.39 in) to 15 millimetres (0.59 in) long by approximately 5 millimetres (0.20 in) wide. The bark around the gall is smooth and contains one larva which has three dorsal annulets on the third abdominal segment, and a suranal plate without pseudocerci.[1][2] Pupation is probably in the gall.[1]

In Britain the gall has been found on eared willow (Salix aurita).[2] Elsewhere it has also been found on grey willow (S. cinerea), downy willow (S. lapponum) and (S. starkeana).[1]

Other similar looking galls in the Euura atra subgroup are,[3]

Distribution

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Euura auritae has been recorded in central and northern Europe to Finland, Norway and Sweden. Also Czech Republic, Great Britain and the Netherlands.[1][2][3][4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Ellis, W N. "Euura auritae Kopelke, 2000". Plant Parasites of Europe. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Redfern, Margaret; Shirley, Peter; Boxham, Michael (2011). British Plant Galls (Second ed.). Shrewsbury: Field Study Council. pp. 282–299. ISBN 978-185153-284-1.
  3. ^ a b Liston, Andrew D; Heibo, Erik; Prous, Marko; Vardal, Hege; Nyman, Tommi; Vikberg, Veli (2017). "North European gall-inducing Euura sawflies (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae, Nematinae)". Zootaxa. 4302 (1). Magnolia Press: 59. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4302.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
  4. ^ Beneš, Karel (2014). "Additions to the Czech list of Eurra Newman, 1837 (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae)". Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Biologicae (Brno). 99 (1): 69–75. ISSN 1211-8788.