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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) » Tenthredininae » Macrophyini » Macrophya » Privet Sawfly (Macrophya punctumalbum)

Species Macrophya punctumalbum - Privet Sawfly

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
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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 Tenthredininae
Tribe Macrophyini
Genus Macrophya
Species punctumalbum (Privet Sawfly)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
our only member of the subgenus Pseudomacrophya(1)
Explanation of Names
Macrophya punctumalbum (Linnaeus 1767)
Range
native to Europe & the Caucasus(2), adventive in our area (PQ-ON-NY; BC) and well-established in ne. NA (Hoebeke & Johnson 1985)
Food
hosts: various Olivaceae (Ligustrum, Fraxinus, Syringa)(2)(Hoebeke & Johnson 1985)
Remarks
males are exceptionally rare(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
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.
Contributed by Martin Hauser on 12 July, 2009 - 6:19pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 4 August, 2014 - 1:33am

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