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European Wheat Stem Sawfly (Cephus pygmaeus)
Species
Cephus pygmaeus
- European Wheat Stem Sawfly
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
Cephidae (Stem Sawflies)
Tribe
Cephini
Genus
Cephus
Species
pygmaeus
(European Wheat Stem Sawfly)
Explanation of Names
Cephus pygmeus
(Linnaeus 1767) [spelling per
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1
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Size
5-11 mm
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2
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Range
native to, and widespread across Eurasia & N. Africa, adventive in NA (ne. US & Canada)
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2
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Remarks
earliest NA record: NY 1887 (
Udine 1941
)
no longer economically important due to the introduction and establishment of parasitoid wasps in the 1930s
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3
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Internet References
Fact sheet
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Works Cited
1.
de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.
2.
Afonin A.N. et al., eds. (2008) Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries
3.
Wheat stem sawfly biology
Fulbright J., Wanner K., Weaver D. 2011. Montguide MT201107AG, 3 pp.
Contributed by
v belov
on 20 June, 2014 - 7:27pm
Last updated 31 July, 2014 - 2:15pm