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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Argid Sawflies (Argidae) » Sterictiphorinae » Schizocerella » Purslane sawfly (Schizocerella pilicornis)
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larva - Schizocerella pilicornis
Copyright © 2016 Ilona L.

larva - Schizocerella pilicornis
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
June 20, 2016
Schizocerella pilicornis seems likely since this was found in a leaf of Purslane.

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larva - Schizocerella pilicornis larva - Schizocerella pilicornis larva - Schizocerella pilicornis
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 22 June, 2016 - 3:09pm
Last updated 28 June, 2016 - 6:41am

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Leaf Mines.

Strange... it almost looks like a beetle larva, but I think it's just scrunched up because it isn't doing too well (or is preparing to molt?). The one inside the mine (which I assume is the same larva) looks like a normal sawfly larva.
… Charley Eiseman, 28 June, 2016 - 6:41am login or register to post comments

The mine looks right...
but those speckles aren't present on any of the larvae I have photographed, or any of the ones in the guide. Maybe this is because all the other photos show prepupae and this is a younger larva? I'm also confused by the appearance of the front end of the larva in your second photo. Did you get a side view, by any chance?
… Charley Eiseman, 27 June, 2016 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

 
no side view
I didn't get a side view but I did get an underside view if that helps.
… Ilona L., 27 June, 2016 - 11:20pm login or register to post comments

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