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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Stem Sawflies (Cephidae) » Cephini » Cephus » Western Wheat Stem Sawfly (Cephus cinctus)
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Sawfly? - Cephus cinctus
Copyright © 2009 Heidi Eaton

Sawfly? - Cephus cinctus
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
July 16, 2009
Size: ~8-9mm
Before I got in close to this insect, I thought it was a small syrphid, but it obviously has 2 sets of wings and long antennae. It looks similar to some sawflies in my field guide, but I'm not sure how small they are. I'm sure someone knows what it is. It also posed really well, since it was dead. :) Slightly different view that shows the tip of the abdomen.

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Contributed by Heidi Eaton on 16 July, 2009 - 11:44pm
Last updated 17 July, 2009 - 6:51pm

Moved
Moved from Stem Sawflies.
Quite a find! It was IDed to species and it turns out that it is an important pest of wheat. I just finished creating a guide page for it. If it is such a common pest of wheat it should be easy to get more images but so far nobody has done so. Good for you!
… Beatriz Moisset, 17 July, 2009 - 6:51pm login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 17 July, 2009 - 12:09am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I know they're not the best images, but I went ahead and moved them to family, since there are so few Cephidae images and there were none previously from Colorado.
… Heidi Eaton, 17 July, 2009 - 12:32am login or register to post comments

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