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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Cimbicid Sawflies (Cimbicidae) » Trichiosoma » Trichiosoma triangulum
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Sawfly? - Trichiosoma triangulum
Copyright © 2008 Kevin H. Wirth

Sawfly? - Trichiosoma triangulum
Port Orchard, WA, Kitsap County, Washington, USA
June 20, 2008
Size: 2"

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Contributed by Kevin H. Wirth on 31 July, 2008 - 3:24am
Last updated 30 August, 2008 - 6:30pm

Moved
Moved from Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps.
… Beatriz Moisset, 30 August, 2008 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

I've never seen anything like
I've never seen anything like it before... :o
… Jonas Insinga, 31 July, 2008 - 5:58am login or register to post comments

 
A Cimbicid Sawfly (Cimbicidae
A Cimbicid Sawfly (Cimbicidae). The clubbed antennae are typical of the family.
… Dennis Haines, 31 July, 2008 - 10:40am login or register to post comments

 
Clubbed antenna
Sorry, I really wasn't looking at the clubbed antenna but those ferocious looking mandibles! What is that plate between the mandibles used for?

Thanks for confirming the ID - that was my guess also.


Kevin
… Kevin H. Wirth, 31 July, 2008 - 11:34am login or register to post comments

 
Trichiosoma triangulum.
Nice specimen of this insect.
… Eric R. Eaton, 31 July, 2008 - 11:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Eric
It was also very cooperative, ie, it allowed me to "handle" it (note that photo of it on my fingers). I don't mind admitting that it took some guts to coax it onto my fingers, not knowing if it might like to take a bite out of me. Just call me the "Insect Whisperer," I guess. ;>)
… Kevin H. Wirth, 1 August, 2008 - 12:14am login or register to post comments

 
neat lookin guy
The "plate" is it's labrum, basically it's "upper lip."

see here for more info.
… M. N. O'Donnell, 31 July, 2008 - 12:19pm login or register to post comments

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