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Former Pontania

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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 Nematinae
Tribe Nematini (Willow Sawflies and allies)
Genus Euura
No Taxon Former Pontania
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pontania Costa, 1859
Numbers
42 spp. in our area(1)
Remarks
these sawflies form round galls in willow leaves. Parasitoids include Lathrostizus (Ichneumonidae):
Print References
(2)
Internet References
P. proxima (Willow Redgall Sawfly) Species page (dead link) (3)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
2.Types and biological notes of the eastern North American sawflies of Pontania Costa and Phyllocolpa Benson (Hym.:Tenthredinidae)
Zinovjev A.G., Smith D.R. 1999. Proc. Entom. Soc. Wash. 101: 359-371.
3.University of Alberta Entomology Collection
Contributed by Joyce Gross on 25 May, 2008 - 6:14pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Beatriz Moisset, ceiseman, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 11 June, 2024 - 7:51pm

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