Euura mimator

At present this species can only be identified in the female gender using the key and diagrams provided in Schmidt, 1997 under Amauronematus mimus. It should be noted that the aforementioned key only references specimens from Fennoscandia and colour variation may exist in British and Irish specimens. The saw should be carefully examined.

Euura mimator larvae feed on eared willow.

Size: Female: 8.0 - 8.8mm, male: 6.8mm - 7.2mm.

Status: Data deficient

Distribution: Scotland, Ireland

Flight period: May to June

Plant associations: Salix aurita (eared willow)

The National Biodiversity Network records are shown on the map below. (See terms and conditions)

References:

Benson, R.B., 1935. The high mountain sawflies of Britain (Hymenoptera Symphyta). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 83(1), pp.23-39.

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.D., Knight, G., Heibo, E., Bland, K.P., Barstad, T.E., Blank, S.M., Boevé, J.L., Fiedler, C., Grearson, K.J., Halstead, A. and Jacobs, H.J., 2012. On Scottish sawflies, with results of the 14th International Sawfly Workshop, in the southern Highlands, 2010 (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Beiträge zur Entomologie= Contributions to Entomology, 62(1), pp.1-68.

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

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

Schmidt, S., 1997. Amauronematus Konow, 1890-Ökologie und Taxonomie der nordeuropäischen Arten des fallax-Komplexes (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie= Contributions to Entomology, 47(2), pp.227-326.