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; occurrenceStatus: present; preparations: whole animal (ethanol) and larval exuvia; disposition: in collection; Taxon: scientificName: Eupareophoraexarmata (Thomson, 1871); kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Hymenoptera; family: Tenthredinidae; genus: Eupareophora; specificEpithet: exarmata; scientificNameAuthorship: Thomson, 1871; nomenclaturalCode: ICZN; taxonomicStatus: accepted; Location: continent: Eurasia; country:
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Description</paragraph>
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Phylogenetic analyses of 1078 bp of COI sequences showed with strong statistical support (bootstrap proportion 92%) that the closest relative of the putative
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prepupa is the Nearctic
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(Fig. 1), from which it nevertheless differs significantly at the sequence level, by 10.8%. The tree is otherwise poorly resolved, because of the limited amount of sequence data used. Closest relatives of the genus
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on the tree are
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,
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, and
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, although without statistical support (Fig. 1). A strongly supported clade of the latter three genera was found by
<bibRefCitation author="Malm, Tobias" journalOrPublisher="Cladistics" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="1 - 17" title="Phylogeny of the symphytan grade of Hymenoptera: new pieces into the old jigsaw (fly) puzzle" volume="31" year="2014">Malm and Nyman 2014</bibRefCitation>
using 8 nuclear and one mitochondrial (COI) protein coding genes, suggesting that
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(which Malm &amp; Nyman 2015 did not sample) might also belong there.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Hosts</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation author="Liston, A. D." journalOrPublisher="Chalastos Forestry, Gottfrieding" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" title="Compendium of European Sawflies. List of species, modern nomenclature, distribution, foodplants, identification literature." year="1995">Liston 1995</bibRefCitation>
stated that the hosts of
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are
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species (
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) and that the larvae bore in shoots. Although not cited by Liston, this statement was based on a record by
<bibRefCitation author="Reichert, A." journalOrPublisher="Sitzungsberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="37 - 74" title="Die Tenthredinoidea von Leipzig und Umgegend." volume="56 - 59" year="1933">Reichert 1933</bibRefCitation>
: &quot;mit Larven von
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eingetragene Rosenzweige ergaben 13.2.18. im geheizten Zimmer 1 #w, det Enslin&quot;. In view of the morphological similarity of adult
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(whose hosts are
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rosaceae" genus="Rosa" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rosa" order="Rosales" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Rosa</taxonomicName>
spp.:
<bibRefCitation author="Scheibelreiter, G. K." journalOrPublisher="Zeitschrift fuer angewandte Entomologie" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="225 - 259" title="Die Tenthrediniden der Rose (Rosa spec.)." volume="72" year="1973">Scheibelreiter 1973</bibRefCitation>
) and
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, it seems likely that Enslin misidentified the specimen.
<bibRefCitation author="Zhelochovtsev [Zhelohovcev], A. N." editor="Zhelohovcev, A. N." journalOrPublisher="Nauka, Leningrad" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" title="Keys to the fauna of the USSR, edited by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR" year="1988">Zhelochovtsev [Zhelohovcev] 1988</bibRefCitation>
) mentioned under
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simply &quot;on ash&quot; [translated] (
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sp.,
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). Probably this information is based on original observations made by
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al. (1972) in Georgia, who reared adults from larvae. Adults were examined by Zhelochovtsev and determined as
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. The larva is very briefly described by
<bibRefCitation author="Supatashvili, S. M." journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="217 - 220" title="[New representatives of the insect pest fauna of forest and park plantations in Georgia.]" volume="68" year="1972">Supatashvili et al. 1972</bibRefCitation>
[translated]: &quot;Larva grey coloured, body covered with awl-shaped processes&quot;. These authors also record
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as the host, but do not mention which
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species was involved. Apart from
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L., some other ash species occur in Georgia, such as
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Vahl subsp. oxycarpa (M. Bieb. ex Willd.) Franco &amp; Rocha Afonso (
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). The recent German records indicate that
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L. is a host. As far as we are aware, the publication by
<bibRefCitation author="Supatashvili, S. M." journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="217 - 220" title="[New representatives of the insect pest fauna of forest and park plantations in Georgia.]" volume="68" year="1972">Supatashvili et al. 1972</bibRefCitation>
is unique in referring to
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as a pest. Their observations were made in stands of planted ash. It is noteworthy that the occasional reports of defoliation caused by
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in North America involve &quot;planted ash species [..] in urban settings&quot; (
<bibRefCitation author="Williams, D. J." journalOrPublisher="Canadian Entomologist" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="269 - 277" title="Biology of the spiny ash sawfly, Eupareophoraparca (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Blennocampinae), in Edmonton, Alberta." volume="139" year="2007">Williams 2007</bibRefCitation>
), although D. R. Smith (personal communication) states that it is also fairly common throughout the eastern deciduous forests.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Description of mature larva (Figs 2, 3, 4).</paragraph>
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Terminology follows
<bibRefCitation author="Viitasaari, M." editor="Viitasaari, M." journalOrPublisher="Tremex, Helsinki" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" title="Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) I. A review of the suborder, the Western Palaearctic taxa of Xyeloidea and Pamphilioidea." year="2002">Viitasaari 2002</bibRefCitation>
, with notation of annulets of abdominal segments according to
<bibRefCitation author="Vikberg, V." journalOrPublisher="Entomologica Fennica" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="27 - 38" title="On the rearing of Nesoselandria morio (Fabricius) and Birka cinereipes (Klug) (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae), with descriptions of their larvae." volume="8" year="1997">Vikberg and Nuorteva 1997</bibRefCitation>
, i.e. annulet 3 bears the spiracle.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Length: approximately 15 mm.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Head completely black except for pale mouthparts. Ground colour of trunk above spiracular line grey; whitish below this, with yellow tinge on abdominal segments 1-8. Cuticular processes (hereafter: spines) above spiracles located on more or less black glandubae. Above spiracles, on thorax, most spines entirely black; on abdomen all supraspiracular spines blackish above fork, whitish below this; the outermost of each dorsal pair of spines darker. All subspiracular spines paler than more dorsal ones; apically at most pale brown, and if located on glandubae, then these also completely pale.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Antenna with 5 articles. Clypeus with 2 setae. Thoracic leg with 5 articles. The 4 most dorsal and anterior spines on thorax are trifid. Prolegs on abdominal segments 2-8 and 10. Abdominal segments 1-9 with 5 dorsal annulets. Annulet 3 with 2 supraspiracular bifid spines. Annulet 5 with 3 bifid spines: 2 supraspiracular and 1 on spiracular line. Abdominal segment 10 without spine on midline. Subspiracular lobe with two spines; anterior one bifid, other simple. Suprapedal lobe with two simple spines.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Description of prepupa (Fig. 5).</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Length: approximately 13 mm.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Head grey above; yellowish on and around mouthparts. Thorax yellow-white. Abdomen largely grey, with yellow patches on and below spiracular line, and yellowish prolegs.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Spines absent, except on abdominal segments 9 and 10, where they are replaced by unbranched, peg-shaped structures. Prothorax dorsally and anteriorly more strongly produced than in the feeding larva, giving it a hooded appearance.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Identification</paragraph>
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Other spiny West Palaearctic
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larvae belong to the genera
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. Larvae of all of these, none of which feeds on
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, have a mainly pale green or yellowish body and are thus easily distinguished from the predominantly grey larva of
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.
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stated that the larva of
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has two bifurcate spines on the subspiracular lobe, and can therefore be distinguished from those of
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species in which the anterior of these two spines is bifurcate and the posterior one simple. The larva of
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in this respect (Fig. 4) is however like
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, not
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. The coloration of the mature larva of
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(illustrated by
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) and
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(Figs 2, 3, 4) is similar, although the latter is apparently darker. According to
<bibRefCitation author="Williams, D. J." journalOrPublisher="Canadian Entomologist" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="269 - 277" title="Biology of the spiny ash sawfly, Eupareophoraparca (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Blennocampinae), in Edmonton, Alberta." volume="139" year="2007">Williams 2007</bibRefCitation>
(fig. 10B), the caudal abdominal terga of the
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prepupa entirely lack large cuticular processes, whereas the prepupa of
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clearly possesses some (Fig. 5).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="7147">Behaviour</paragraph>
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All adult collection records and observations on larvae (here, and by
<bibRefCitation author="Supatashvili, S. M." journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="217 - 220" title="[New representatives of the insect pest fauna of forest and park plantations in Georgia.]" volume="68" year="1972">Supatashvili et al. 1972</bibRefCitation>
, suggest that
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is univoltine, flying soon after bud-break in spring, with larvae developing, according to local climate, between the end of April and start of June. The behaviour of the feeding larvae, although only briefly described by
<bibRefCitation author="Supatashvili, S. M." journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="217 - 220" title="[New representatives of the insect pest fauna of forest and park plantations in Georgia.]" volume="68" year="1972">Supatashvili et al. 1972</bibRefCitation>
seems to resemble quite closely that of the Nearctic
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as described by
<bibRefCitation author="Williams, D. J." journalOrPublisher="Canadian Entomologist" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="269 - 277" title="Biology of the spiny ash sawfly, Eupareophoraparca (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Blennocampinae), in Edmonton, Alberta." volume="139" year="2007">Williams 2007</bibRefCitation>
.
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At Hagen-Hohenlimburg only mature larvae of
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. exarmata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" rank="species" species="exarmata">E. exarmata</taxonomicName>
were found, apparently when they crawled down the trunk of the host in order to reach a spot in which to complete their development.
<bibRefCitation author="Williams, D. J." journalOrPublisher="Canadian Entomologist" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" pagination="269 - 277" title="Biology of the spiny ash sawfly, Eupareophoraparca (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae: Blennocampinae), in Edmonton, Alberta." volume="139" year="2007">Williams 2007</bibRefCitation>
recovered eight prepupae of
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from the soil litter layer, and 2 from branches of the host. Further observations are therefore needed to establish whether
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. exarmata" pageId="0" pageNumber="7147" rank="species" species="exarmata">E. exarmata</taxonomicName>
always leaves its host before moulting to a prepupa. According to
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, the mature larvae form cells in the bark of
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, in which they overwinter. A further apparent peculiarity noted by these authors, is that the freshly moulted larvae lack spines, but that these re-appear within a day. Neither of these phenomena was observed by
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in the Nearctic
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, who found that the rather flimsy cocoon was usually constructed in the upper layers of the soil.
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