Euura melanocephalus
Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: 168 Euura melanocephalus group The group is mostly defined based on genetics, because the species are very similar in morphology. The penis valves are not clearly distinguishable from those of the miliaris group, or E. anthracina and E. hyperborea. Although males of not all species in the miliaris group are known for certain, their antennae seem to be longer than the costa and pterostigma, while the antennae are about as long as the costa and pterostigma in the melanocephalus group. Euura hyperborea males are darker (black pronotum, tegula, and sterna) and have longer hair on the head and thorax than in the melanocephalus group. Males of E. anthracina might not be distinguishable from those of the melanocephalus group species with a pale pterostigma (E. cadderensis, E. ferruginea, E. kangasi). Based on the lancets and valvula 3, females are most similar to those of E. anthracina, E. hyperborea, and E. distinguenda, but can be distinguished from these species by paler colouration (extensively pale yellowish abdomen and often extensively pale thorax). We recognize five species in the group, two of which have a black pterostigma (E. bohemani and E. melanocephalus), although the males of E. cadderensis, E. ferruginea and E. kangasi can also have a rather dark pterostigma.
Authors: Prous, Marko, Liston, Andrew, Monckton, Spencer K., Kramp, Katja, Vårdal, Hege, Vikberg, Veli, Heibo, Erik, Mutanen, Marko
Institutions: University of Tartu Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden, University of Tartu, University of Oulu, Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Swedish Museum of Natural History
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6912073740
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