Species Euura californica - Willow Apple Gall Sawfly
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps)
Family Tenthredinidae (Common Sawflies)
Subfamily Nematinae
Tribe Nematini (Willow Sawflies and allies)
Genus Euura
No Taxon Pontania
Species californica (Willow Apple Gall Sawfly)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pontania californica
Identification
This sawfly makes the only round red/green willow leaf gall in California with lenticels (wartlike scales, tubercles). The gall protrudes on both sides of the leaf. (1)
Food
Larva feeds on willow (Salix lasiolepis and Salix lemmonii). (1)