Sciapteryx soror KONOW, 1890

Liston, A. D., Knight, G. T., Heibo, E., Bland, K. P., Barstad, Trond Elling, Blank, S. M., Boeve, J. - L., Fiedler, K., Grearson, K. J., Halstead, A., Jacobs, H. - J., Jansen, E., Lonnve, O., Prous, M., Robinson, J. & Taeger, A., 2012, On Scottish sawflies, with results of the 14 International Sawfly Workshop, in the southern Highlands, 2010 (Hymenoptera, Symphyta), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 62, pp. 1-68 : 52

Sciapteryx soror KONOW, 1890

Orkney, Hoy , Nowt Bield, HY 2301 (111), 21.vi.2009 (2), leg. Bland, det. Liston.

Orkney, Hoy , Quoyberstane, HY 4612 (111), 22.vi.2009 (2), leg. Bland, det. Liston.

An addition to the list of Orkney sawflies ( Liston 1983c, Sheppard 1986). Note that Blank & Taeger (1998) treated S. soror provisionally as an Atlantic subspecies of the more continental S. costalis (Fabricius, 1775) , but mentioned that they may be found to be synonyms when a greater amount of material from throughout Europe becomes available for comparison. Sciapteryx species are typically active in the early spring. Benson (1952) gives April to May as the flight period of S. soror , that he recorded “N. to Aberdeen and Inverness”. The records above are surprisingly late, even though they represent the most northerly known occurrences in the entire range of S. soror ( Taeger et al. 2006) .