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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Argid Sawflies (Argidae) » Sterictiphorinae » Schizocerella » Purslane sawfly (Schizocerella pilicornis)
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Miner in purslane - Schizocerella pilicornis
Copyright © 2015 John Schneider

Miner in purslane - Schizocerella pilicornis
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
June 29, 2015
Size: ~1/4 inch
After leaving the mine, it burrowed into the soil, and the adult hasn't emerged yet.

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Miner in purslane - Schizocerella pilicornis closeup - Schizocerella pilicornis out of mine - Schizocerella pilicornis
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Contributed by John Schneider on 7 July, 2015 - 8:55pm
Last updated 17 December, 2023 - 5:43pm

Moved
Moved from Moths.

Unidentified leafminers are best posted here (especially when they're not moths! :) )
… Charley Eiseman, 27 October, 2015 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

 
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Hi Charley. I had a fly emerge from a herringbone-type mine in a lantana leaf . Would it be Ophiomyia camarae? You've ID'd the leaf mines as that species in the past, and this is the first time I've been able to photograph the adult that emerged.
… John Schneider, 6 November, 2015 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

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