Fagineura glabella Hara, 2022

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 : 58-59

Fagineura glabella Hara, 2022

New Japanese name: Tsuya-aka-nara-habachi

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Larva. Middle instar ( Fig. 1A–B ): Head and thoracic legs black; trunk dorsally dark greenish gray, laterally and ventrally pale greenish gray, laterally with black spots. Final instar larva ( Fig. 1C–D ): Head black; thoracic legs pale yellow, with claws brown; trunk dorsally reddish yellow, dorsolaterally black, laterally and ventrally pale gray, laterally with black spots.

Material examined. HONSHU: Tochigi Pref.: 1$, Nakagawa , Koisago, coll. larva on Quercus acutissima 17. V. 2013, mat. 24. V., em. 35. III. 2014, S. Ibuki ( Fig. 1 ) (cited by Hara and Ibuki, 2022) .

Remarks. Hara and Ibuki (2022) recorded the host plant and gave a brief note on the life history. The larva has not been described and figured.

Figures

Fig. 1.Fagineura glabella. A–B, Middle instar larva, 19. V. 2013; C, final instar larva, 21. V. 2013; D, mature larva, 24. V. 2013. Photographed by Ibuki.