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Species Fenella nigrita

Potentilla Leaf Miner [Fenella? nigrita??] ID Request - Fenella nigrita

Cinquefoil Leaf Mine [=Fenella? nigrita??] ID Request - Fenella nigrita

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 Heterarthrinae

Tribe Fenusini

Genus Fenella

Species nigrita (Fenella nigrita)

Explanation of Names

Fenella nigrita Westwood 1839

Size

♀ ~3 mm(1)

Range

native to Europe, adventive in NA (ne. US & adjacent Canada)(1)

Food

the only known sawfly leafminer of Potentilla

Life Cycle

parthenogenetic (males unknown)(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: ON 1962(1)

Internet References

Species pages: Ellis (2012)(2) | Edmunds (2007)(3) | Pitkin (2013)(4)

Works Cited

1.	Nearctic sawflies. III. Heterarthrinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) D.R. Smith. 1971. Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1420. 84 pp.

2.	Ellis W.N. (2007-) Leafminers of Europe

3.	British leafminers

4.	Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. (2007-) The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 10 September, 2013 - 7:42am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 29 November, 2013 - 5:22pm

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