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Family Pamphiliidae - Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies

Onycholyda amplecta ? - Onycholyda amplecta Onycholyda luteicornis? - Onycholyda luteicornis - female Alpine Hymenoptera - Acantholyda Onycholyda amplecta Unidentified Sawfly larva Cool insect . . . ID? - Onycholyda amplecta Pamphiliidae found on snowpack Hymenoptera. Pamphiliidae. Pamphilius
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), ~200 spp. in 8‒10 genera total
Identification
Adults have many-segmented antennae. Larvae with long antennae, long subanal appendages, small hook at apex of last segment. ―D.R. Smith
keys to spp. in (2)(3)
Food
larvae feed on foliage of woody plants • species list with known host plants
Life Cycle
larvae spin webs on host plants
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.