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Family Pamphiliidae - Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies

Cherry Webspinning Sawfly - Neurotoma fasciata

Web-spinning Sawfly - Onycholyda luteicornis

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 Pamphiliidae (Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies)

Numbers

75 species in 7 genera in North America (nearctica.com)

Identification

Adults have many-segmented antennae.

Larvae have "long antennae, long subanal appendages, small hook at apex of last segment." -- Dave Smith

Food

larvae spin webs in a variety of woody plants where they feed on foliage

Internet References

pinned adult images of undetermined species in the genera Acantholyda, Cephalcia, Neurotoma, Pamphilius (Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)

Wikipedia

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Vox Sciurorum
Last updated 31 August, 2009 - 6:36pm

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