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Species Fenusella nana - Early Birch Leaf Edgeminer

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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 Fenusini
Genus Fenusella
Species nana (Early Birch Leaf Edgeminer)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Scolioneura laeta Enslin, Messa nana (Klug 1816)
Explanation of Names
Fenusella nana (Klug 1818)
Greek nanos (νανος) 'dwarf'
Size
avg. BL: ♀ 4.5 mm, ♂ (unknown in NA) 4-4.5 mm(1)
Range
native to, and widespread across n. Eurasia, adventive in NA (ne. US)(1)(2)(3), introduced from Europe
Season
The adult lays eggs in the spring
Food
hosts: birches(1), esp. white birch
Life Cycle
one generation per year; pupates in the soil and remains there until the next year
Remarks
The mine made by the larva starts at the end of a vein at a leaf's edge and it is plugged by frass [mine(4)]
earliest NA record: ME 1966(1)
Internet References
Species pages: Ellis (2007) (Europe)(5) | Edmunds (2007) (UK)(4) | Pitkin et al. (2007-) (UK)(6)
Works Cited
1.Nearctic sawflies. III. Heterarthrinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
D.R. Smith. 1971. Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1420. 84 pp.
2.Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 6.
Zhelokhovtsev A.N., Tobias V.I., Kozlov M.A. 1993. Keys to the Fauna of the USSR 158: 1-432.
3.Insects: Their Natural History And Diversity: With a Photographic Guide to Insects of Eastern North America
Stephen A. Marshall. 2006. Firefly Books Ltd.
4.British leafminers
5.Ellis W.N. (2007-) Leafminers of Europe
6.Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. (2007-) The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 13 October, 2008 - 9:20pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 29 November, 2013 - 5:33pm

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