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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae)

Family Tenthredinidae - Common Sawflies

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Sawfly - Macrophya flavicoxae sawfly Stages of Wooly Sawfly Larva - Eriocampa Is this a sawfly? - female Willow Gall - Pontania Symphyta 05b caterpillar - Macremphytus Black wasp(?) - Dolerus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps)
Family Tenthredinidae (Common Sawflies)
Numbers
About 840 spp. (Borror et al.)
721 spp. (Arnett)
Approximately 100 genera
Size
Adults rarely over 20 mm.
Identification
Wasplike, often brightly colored, often found on flowers.
Larva eruciform. They usually coil the body (or the posterior end) over the edge of the leaf.
Food
Most of the larvae feed on foliage.
Life Cycle
Usually a single generation a year. Overwinters in the ground or in protected places as a pupa or cocoon.
Remarks
Some species are serious pests.
Print References
(1) (2)
Internet References
Wikipedia
Works Cited
1.Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects
By Norman F. Johnson, Charles A. Triplehorn
2.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
By Ross H. Arnett
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 18 March, 2005 - 9:52am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, tom murray
Last updated 23 January, 2009 - 6:01pm

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