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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae) » Heterarthrinae » Caliroini » Caliroa » Pear Slug Sawfly (Caliroa cerasi)

Species Caliroa cerasi - Pear Slug Sawfly

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Caliroini
Genus Caliroa
Species cerasi (Pear Slug Sawfly)
Other Common Names
Cherry Sawfly, Cherry Slug, Cherry Slug Sawfly, Pear Sawfly, Pear Slug Sawfly, Pear & Cherry Slugworm
Explanation of Names
Caliroa cerasi (Linnaeus 1758)
Size
adult 4‒6 mm, larva up to 11 mm(1)(2)
Range
Native to Europe & w. Asia, adventive on all other continents(1)(3); in NA, widespread, mostly in n. US and so. Canada (map)(4)
Season
In Canada adults emerge and fly in mid-June to late July, elsewhere as early as mid-May(5)
Food
polyphagous on Rosaceae(3)
Life Cycle
Parthenogenetic (males unknown in NA, rare in Europe), usually bivoltine in NA(2)
Overwinter in earthen cells or cocoons made of grains of soil held together by a substance secreted by the larva. Pupation in June. Eggs laid singly in semi-circular slits cut in the leaf tissue. Larvae eat the parenchyma only. Full-grown larvae drop to the ground and form cells in soil for pupation. Two generations per year.(6)
Remarks
larvae feed on upper surface of leaves producing distinctive skeletonizing wounds(7)
Internet References
Species pages: anon.(5) • anon.(8) • Green (2021)(9)
Works Cited
1.Pests of fruit crops: a colour handbook
Alford D.V. 2007. Academic Press. 480 pp.
2.Nearctic sawflies. III. Heterarthrinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
D.R. Smith. 1971. Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1420. 84 pp.
3.Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 6.
Zhelokhovtsev A.N., Tobias V.I., Kozlov M.A. 1993. Keys to the Fauna of the USSR 158: 1-432.
4.Taeger A., Cincotta S., Susko E. (-2013) Kinds of Symphyta on Discover Life
5.University of Alberta Entomology Collection
6.Eastern Forest Insects
Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.
7.Garden Insects of North America : The Ultimate Guide to Backyard Bugs (Princeton Field Guides)
Whitney Cranshaw. 2004. Princeton University Press.
8.NatureSpot: recording the wildlife of Leicestershire and Rutland
9.Green A.J. (2021) The Sawflies (Symphyta) of Britain and Ireland
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 31 October, 2006 - 2:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman, v belov, Marci Hess, PaleoJon
Last updated 25 December, 2023 - 6:10pm

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