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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) » Blennocampinae » Phymatocerini » Eutomostethus » Eutomostethus ephippium

Species Eutomostethus ephippium

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Works Cited
Common Sawfly - Eutomostethus ephippium Common Sawfly - Eutomostethus ephippium Argidae ? - Eutomostethus ephippium sawfly species - Eutomostethus ephippium Sawfly - Eutomostethus ephippium Eutomostethus ephippium Black insect with orang/brown thorax - Eutomostethus ephippium Sawfly - Eutomostethus ephippium
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 Blennocampinae
Tribe Phymatocerini
Genus Eutomostethus
Species ephippium (Eutomostethus ephippium)
Explanation of Names
Eutomostethus ephippium (Panzer 1798)
Range
holarctic, but prob. adventive in NA, where most common around eastern seaports and only known from Vancouver & Seattle in the west; TX record questionable(1)
Food
on Poa and other soft grasses(1)
Works Cited
1.Nearctic sawflies. I. Blennocampinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
D.R. Smith. 1969. Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1397. 179 pp.
Contributed by tom murray on 8 October, 2008 - 10:42pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 13 June, 2012 - 5:44pm

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