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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 » Sphacophilus » subgenus Ceocolus (Sphacophilus subgenus Ceocolus) » Sphacophilus apios
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Argidae, cocoons on Scurf Pea - Sphacophilus apios
Copyright © 2018 MJ Hatfield

Argidae, cocoons on Scurf Pea - Sphacophilus apios
Talmage Hill WA, Union County, Iowa, USA
July 7, 2015
July 4, 2014: M. Leoschke collected cocoons on Scurf Pea, Pediomelum tenuiflorum

but only 1 adult female emerged

July 5, 2015: M. Leoschke again collected cocoons on Scurf Pea
July 7, 2015: I received the package, 2 sawfly adults had already emerged
July 8-24, 2015: more sawfly adults, both female and male, 4 flies, 1 wasp and found 1 sawfly larva

July 13, 2015: male sawfly emerged

July 19, 2015: 1st fly emerged

July 20, 2015: wasp emerged

Identification by D.R. Smith. Specimens examined and deposited in USNM.

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Argidae, cocoons on Scurf Pea - Sphacophilus apios Argidae, dorsal - Sphacophilus apios - female Argidae, ventral - Sphacophilus apios - female
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 13 February, 2018 - 11:06am
Last updated 2 April, 2018 - 9:39pm

Moved
Moved from Sphacophilus nigriceps.
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