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Genus Filacus

Santiago Oaks Bee for ID, #1 - Filacus Sawfly? - Filacus Filacus - Filacus pluricinctellus - male Unknown insect - Filacus Sawfly (Tenthredinidae) - Filacus - female Wasp or Bee? - Filacus - female Tenthredininae - Filacus Filacus? - Filacus
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 Tenthredininae
Tribe Sciapterygini
Genus Filacus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
members of this genus used to be treated in Macrophya
Explanation of Names
Filacus Smith & Gibson 1984
Numbers
4 spp. total, all in our area(1)(2)
1. Filacus albipes
2. Filacus doanei
3. Filacus pluricinctellus
4. Filacus pluricinctus
Range
w. US & Mexico(1)(2)
Food
Larvae reported on Amsinckia and Phacelia(2)