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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies (Pamphiliidae)

Family Pamphiliidae - Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Food · Works Cited
fancy sawfly - Acantholyda Sawfly Larva? - Neurotoma fasciata Larva in shelter - Onycholyda sitkensis Sawfly - Acantholyda Cephalcia Sawfly - Onycholyda luteicornis Red-headed Sawfly - Acantholyda erythrocephala - female Sawflyh larvae - Neurotoma
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 Pamphiliidae (Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies)
Explanation of Names
Pamphiliidae Cameron 1890
Numbers
72 spp. in 5 genera in our area(1)
Identification
Adults have many-segmented antennae. Larvae with long antennae, long subanal appendages, small hook at apex of last segment. --Dave Smith
keys to spp. in(2)(3)
Food
larvae spin webs in a variety of woody plants where they feed on foliage
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.The North American sawflies of the genera Acantholyda, Cephalcia, and Neurotoma (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae)
Middlekauff W.W. 1958. University of California Publications in Entomology 14: 51-174.
3.The North American sawflies of the genus Pamphilius (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae)
Middlekauff W.W. 1964. University of California Publications in Entomology 38: 1-80.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Robin McLeod, Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 19 May, 2013 - 10:41am

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