Parna apicalis (BRISCHKE, 1888)

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 : 42

Parna apicalis (BRISCHKE, 1888)

Malleny Woods and Colinton Dell; several leaf-mines on Common Lime ( T. x vulgaris Heyne), 19.vi.2010, leg. Liston. Most vacated, but 2 still with larvae .

Parna apicalis was first recorded as a British species by Edmunds et al. (2007), but perhaps was previously overlooked, rather than being a very recently introduced species. Both Dr M. R. Shaw (pers. comm.) and Liston probably observed the characteristic leaf-mines in the Edinburgh area as early as the 1980’s, but at the time attributed these to Parna tenella (Klug, 1816) .