Amauronematus (Amauronematus)

Liston, Andrew D., 2005, The sawfly genus Amauronematus in Corsica, with a new species of the subgenus Brachycoluma (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 55 (2), pp. 271-277 : 274

Amauronematus (Amauronematus) sp. near histrio (SERVILLE, 1823)

Corsica: 1, Aléria , 30 m. above sea-level, 07.v.2004, ex larva, Salix alba , leg. Liston, DEI ( LISTON & SPÄTH 2005) .

The larva made a soft, whitish cocoon of loose fibres on the upper interior of the rearing container and later pupated. The adult died in the cocoon in March 2005 with wings unexpanded but body pigmentation fully developed. Habitus and colour pattern correspond very closely with Central European specimens of A. histrio . TAEGER et al. (1998) following SCHMIDT (1997) exclude Salix alba and fragilis from the list of hosts of A. histrio , stating that the records from these willows for A. histrio by BENSON (1958) appear to refer to another species of this group. The identification of the Corsican specimen must therefore await further revisionary work.