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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) » Cephalciinae » Acantholyda » Acantholyda ruficeps
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Sitting on a picnic table - Acantholyda ruficeps
Copyright © 2009 John F. Carr

Sitting on a picnic table - Acantholyda ruficeps
Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
July 12, 2009
Size: 13 mm (approx.)
Reminded me of a sawfly. I looked around in Symphyta and didn't find anything that looked like it, including the long, many-segmented antennae.

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 July, 2009 - 2:03pm
Last updated 31 August, 2009 - 5:49pm

Moved
Moved from Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies.
… John F. Carr, 31 August, 2009 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

best guess, Acantholyda
check [not an ID!]
… v belov, 14 July, 2009 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

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