Euura lichtwardti

A broadly black insect with yellow-brown on the tip of the mandible, the labrum, the tegulae, more or less the apical tergite and the hypopygium. On the legs the coxae are black with brownish apices; the trochanters are more or less brown; the femora black with yellow-brown apices. Often the basal half of the legs is black, the tibiae are light yellow-brown darkened apically and on the tarsi. In males, the shape of the procidentia (anchor-shaped with a raised apical rim) and the penis valve are diagnostic.

Euura litchwardti larvae feed on grasses.

Size: 5.5 - 6.5mm.

Status: Local

Distribution: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland

Flight period: April to May

Plant associations: Gramineae (grasses)

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References:

Benson, R.B., 1952. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Hymenoptera, Symphyta, Vol 6, Section 2(a-c), Royal Entomological Society, London

Liston A, Knight G, Sheppard D, Broad G, Livermore L (2014) Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Sawflies, ‘Symphyta’. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1168. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1168

Muche, W.H., 1974. Die Nematinengattungen Pristiphora Latreille, Pachynematus Konow und Nematus Panzer (Hym., Temthredinidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 21(1/3), pp.1-137.

Prous, M., Liston, A., Kramp, K., Savina, H., Vårdal, H. and Taeger, A., 2019. The West Palaearctic genera of Nematinae (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). ZooKeys, 875, p.63-127