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Genus Acantholyda

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sawfly..Pine false webworm??? - Acantholyda erythrocephala - female Interesting Insect I've not seen before - Acantholyda angulata Red-headed Sawfly - Acantholyda erythrocephala - female Not a Yellow Jacket - Acantholyda circumcincta sawfly - Acantholyda atripes - female help with ID - Acantholyda sawfly – Onycholyda luteicornis? - Acantholyda possibly Redheaded fly - Inopus rubriceps... but in Minnesota? - Acantholyda erythrocephala

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 Pamphiliidae (Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies)
Subfamily Cephalciinae
Genus Acantholyda

Explanation of Names

Acantholyda Costa 1894

Numbers

~33 spp. in our area(1), 8 in Europe(2)...

Food

hosts: conifers

Works Cited

1.Taeger A., Cincotta S., Susko E. (-2013) Kinds of Symphyta on Discover Life
2.de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 12 April, 2005 - 10:44pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 7 June, 2023 - 5:24pm

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