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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae) » Selandriinae » Dolerus » Dolerus nitens
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Early Sawfly - Dolerus nitens
Copyright © 2003 Bruce Marlin

Early Sawfly - Dolerus nitens
DuPage County, Illinois, USA
April 12, 2003
Size: 10mm
This species of sawfly is one of the earliest spring fliers (photos taken April 12-13). I found numerous copies amongst the (dormant) grasses and low vegetation of overgrown, fallow farm fields. Their flight is slow and clumsy, resembling that of a common firefly. Larvae feed on various grasses.

Identification determined April 21, 2003 by David R. Smith, Research Entomologist, USDA Systematic Entomology Laboratory.
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Contributed by Bruce Marlin on 14 December, 2005 - 8:24am
Last updated 14 December, 2005 - 10:29am

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