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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) » Heterarthrinae » Caliroini » Caliroa » On oak/chestnut; yellow/orange on thorax (Caliroa On oak/chestnut; yellow/orange on thorax) » Black spots on thorax (Caliroa Black spots on thorax)

Black spots on thorax

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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 Heterarthrinae
Tribe Caliroini
Genus Caliroa
No Taxon (On oak/chestnut; yellow/orange on thorax)
No Taxon Black spots on thorax

Range

MN, WI, MI, OH

Food

So far known only from hosts in the white oak group.

Remarks

Identified on this page as C. quercuscocciniae, but those larvae were not reared, and no literature descriptions mention black spots on the thorax of C. quercuscocciniae or any other Caliroa.
Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 21 November, 2021 - 9:40am
Last updated 24 November, 2021 - 5:01pm

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