Xiphydria camelus (Linné, 1758)

Bourke, Joanna, 2024, Taxonomic Notes and New Distribution and Host Plant Records for Sawflies and Woodwasps (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) of Japan IX, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 50 (1), pp. 19-32 : 29

Xiphydria camelus (Linné, 1758)

Japanese name: Akaashi-kubinaga-kibachi

Material examined. HOKKAIDO: 1♂, Shimizu, 42°58'N 142°50'E, dead standing tree of Cerasus sp. , coll. 5. IX. 2019 , em. 25. V. 2020, H. Hara; 1 ♀, same data but em. 29. V. 2020 ; 1♀, same data but em. 31. V. 2020 ; 1♀, same data but em. 4. VI. 2020 ; 1 ♀, same data but em. 10. VI. 2020 ; 1 ♀, same data but em. 13. VI. 2020 . HONSHU: Tochigi Pref.: 1 ♀, Shobugahama, Nikko , 26. VI. 2019 , S. Maehara.

Distribution. Europe, Russia (Sakhalin), Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu: Gunma, Tochigi, Yamanashi, Nagano prefectures). New record from Tochigi Prefecture.

Host plant. Rosaceae : Cerasus sp. (new record based on adult emergence). Previous European records with good evidence are Acer campestre , Alnus spp. , Betula verrucosa , Ulmus carpinifolia , Quercus , Ostrya carpinifolia , Populus (Schimitschek, 1974). Previous Japanese records for l X. camelus z (e.g., Okutani, 1967) refer to one or more of the three closely related species (Shinohara and Kameda, 2019) and thus need confirmation.

Remarks. There are uncertain European records of lKirschez ( Schimitschek, 1974) or Prunus spp. ( Eichhorn, 1982; Taeger et al., 1998) as a host plant of X. camelus . Schimitschek (1974) included lKirsche ( Rudow, 1878)z in the list of host plants of X. camelus and mentioned lRudow (1888) zog X. camelus aus Weide und Kirschez. However, Rudow (1878, 1888) never referred to lKirschez as a host plant of this species.