Pristiphora conjugata (Dahlbom, 1835)

Kumar, Deepthi S & Sankar, Manimuthu M, 2023, Taxonomic Notes and New Distribution and Host Plant Records for Sawflies and Woodwasps (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) of Japan VIII, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 49 (2), pp. 57-74 : 70

Pristiphora conjugata (Dahlbom, 1835)

Japanese name: Yamanarashi-habachi

Material examined. HOKKAIDO: 1 $, Sapporo, Hokkaido University, coll. larva on Populus nigra , 23. IX. 2005, coc. 24. IX., em. 12. III. 2006, H. Hara .

Distribution. Japan: Hokkaido (new record); Honshu ( Okutani, 1970). Palaearctic ( Prous et al., 2017; Sundukov, 2017, for details).

Host plants. Salicaceae : Populus nigra L. (this study), P. nigra L. var. italica (Duroi) Koehne ( Okutani, 1970), P. tremula L. var. sieboldii (Miq.) Kudô ( Okutani, 1970) in Japan. For more information, see Prous et al. (2017).

Remarks. This species is recorded from Hokkaido for the first time. The Hokkaido female examined runs to Pristiphora conjugata in the key to North-Western Palaearctic species of the genus by Prous et al. (2017).