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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, dorsal - Sphacophilus apios - male
Copyright © 2018 MJ Hatfield

Argidae, dorsal - Sphacophilus apios - Male
Talmage Hill WA, Union County, Iowa, USA
July 13, 2015
Size: 6.6 mm
Rest of the story:


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

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

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 13 February, 2018 - 11:29am
Last updated 2 April, 2018 - 9:38pm

Moved
Moved from Sphacophilus nigriceps.
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