Species Euura respondens Förster, 1854

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nematus respondens Förster, A. 1854. Neue Blattwespen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 11: 421-436 [427-428].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZSM GBIF-GISHym3404 ♂ (specimen is completely destroyed and only one badly damaged penis valve remains, however, the shape of the penis valve of this taxon is highly characteristic), Austria.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Prous, M., Liston, A. & Mutanen, M 2021. Revision of the West Palaearctic Euura bergmanni and oligospila groups (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84: 187-269 [217].

 

Generic Combinations

• Euura respondens (Förster,, 1854). —
  Prous, M., Liston, A. & Mutanen, M 2021. Revision of the West Palaearctic Euura bergmanni and oligospila groups (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84: 187-269 [215] (new combination)

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Nematus oligospilus Förster,, 1854 [a misidentification]. —
  Prous, M., Liston, A. & Mutanen, M 2021. Revision of the West Palaearctic Euura bergmanni and oligospila groups (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 84: 187-269 [196, 215-217]

 

Introduction

There has been confusion about the identity of the invasive willow sawfly in the southern hemisphere (South America, southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand), which Prous et al. 2021 identified as Euura respondens (Förster, 1854). They noted that the name Nematus oligospilus [= E. oligospila (Förster, 1854)] had been incorrectly used for this sawfly in the southern hemisphere due to the high degree of similarity between females of E. oligospila and E. respondens. They demonstrated that the two species were genetically distant within Euura (Fig. 1), and can also be clearly separated based on penis valves, although males of E. respondens are not known in the introduced parthenogenetic populations in the southern hemisphere.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

General References

Ede, F. 2006. Willow Sawfly (Nematus oligospilus) in Victoria: Status Report, July 2006. Department of Primary Industries; Primary Industries Research Victoria, Frankston. pp. 30 (as Nematus oligospilus)

Koch, F & Smith, D.R. 2000. Nematus oligospilus Förster (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae), an introduced willow sawfly in the Southern Hemisphere. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102: 292-300 (as Nematus oligospilus)

Schmidt, S & Smith, D.R. 2009. Selandriinae, a subfamily of Tenthredinidae new to Australia, and a review of other Australian Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta). Australian Journal of Entomology 48: 305-309 [308] (as Nematus oligospilus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	TENTHREDINOIDEA	21-Jun-2022	ADDED