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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Cimbicid Sawflies (Cimbicidae) » Cimbex » Elm sawfly (Cimbex americana)
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Unknown_1c - Cimbex americana
Copyright © 2007 KrazyKat

Unknown_1c - Cimbex americana
Ohiopyle, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 3, 2007
Size: 1 - 1 1/4 inch
Found this along a path through a wooded area. The insect was obviously injured or ill. Thought it was a wasp or hornet. Others have suggested it could be a sawfly or cuckoo bee. I believe this to be the same species as that another image I posted, Unknown_2a. I'm open to suggestions. Thanks for looking.
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Contributed by KrazyKat on 24 July, 2007 - 10:39pm
Last updated 13 October, 2008 - 2:59pm

Moved
Moved from Cimbicid Sawflies.
… Ken Schneider, 13 October, 2008 - 2:59pm login or register to post comments

Cimbex americana?
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… Adalbert Goertz, 25 July, 2007 - 9:43pm login or register to post comments

It is clearly a sawfly, a rel
It is clearly a sawfly, a relative of Cimbex (or maybe Cimbex)...
… Martin Hauser, 25 July, 2007 - 1:29pm login or register to post comments

 
sawfly
Yeah, I was having trouble making the ID because I was assuming it was a wasp or hornet. I believe it may be Cimbex americana, as others have suggested. That is if that species can have dark wings such as the one in the photo. Most pictures I've seen of C. americana show individuals with transparent and colorless wings.

Thanks
… KrazyKat, 26 July, 2007 - 12:44am login or register to post comments

 
can be moved to Cimbex americana page
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… v belov, 9 October, 2008 - 4:05am login or register to post comments

 
could be, but actually, these
could be, but actually, these big sawflies are very difficult to identify, athough they might look easy...
… Martin Hauser, 26 July, 2007 - 11:03am login or register to post comments

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