Field work identifies new sawfly species in Shetland, highlighting the importance of accurate species identification.
Field work in 2024‐2025 adds four species to the list of sawflies known to be established in the Shetland archipelago: Euura annulata (Gimmerthal, 1834), E . ferruginea (Förster, 1854), E . poecilonota (Zaddach, 1876) and Nematus septentrionalis (Linnaeus, 1758). The only published record of Euura melanocephalus (Hartig, 1837) from Shetland is based on a misidentification of E. ferruginea. Euura obducta (Hartig, 1837) is recorded for the first time in the northern group of islands (previously only found on Fair Isle). A total of 16 species are now known to be established. All are Tenthredinidae, and all but three are Nematinae. The species are listed in a table, with an indication of whether they are recorded in the northern archipelago and/???or Fair Isle.
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