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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) » Selandriinae » Dolerini » Dolerus

Genus Dolerus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
sawfly - Dolerus Sawfly? - Dolerus Equisetum Sawfly Larvae - Dolerus tejoniensis sawfly larva - Dolerus Insect with black costa splotches - Dolerus What is this? - Dolerus Insect - Dolerus Black Sawfly - Dolerus
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 Selandriinae
Tribe Dolerini
Genus Dolerus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Loderus Konow, 1890
Explanation of Names
Dolerus Panzer 1801
Numbers
~ 74 spp. in our area(1)
Identification
"The combination of that oblique anal crossvein and strongly curved Rs+M will get you Dolerus every time." — S.K. Monckton(2)
Range
holarctic, temperate and boreal regions(3)
Food
hosts: various grasses (most spp.) and horsetails (members of subgenera Dolerus, Dosytheus, Loderus, Dicrodolerus with 15 spp. between them in NA)(3)
Remarks
larval feeding behavior (M.W. Kozłowski)
Works Cited
1.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
2.black sawfly
3.The genera and subgenera of the sawflies of Canada and Alaska (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)
Goulet H. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 20. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 235 pp.
Contributed by Tony DiTerlizzi on 24 March, 2005 - 9:53pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, metrioptera, PaleoJon
Last updated 26 March, 2023 - 5:42pm

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