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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae) » Allantinae » Eriocampa » Butternut Woolly Worm (Eriocampa juglandis)

Species Eriocampa juglandis - Butternut Woolly Worm

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Internet References
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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)
Subfamily Allantinae
Genus Eriocampa
Species juglandis (Butternut Woolly Worm)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Packard refers to it as Selandria caryae.
Explanation of Names
Author: Fitch 1857
Range
Primarily northeastern US and Canada, but also reported as far south as Alabama.
Food
Larvae feed on leaves of Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) and Butternut (Juglans cinerea). Also reported on Carya spp. (Hickory).
Internet References
Auburn.edu
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Contributed by tom murray on 19 September, 2005 - 7:44pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman
Last updated 27 September, 2008 - 11:10am

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