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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 » Wheat Stem Sawfly (Cephus cinctus)

Species Cephus cinctus - Wheat Stem Sawfly

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited
Sawfly? - Cephus cinctus Sawfly - Cephus cinctus - female sawfly - Cephus cinctus Calameuta clavata? - Cephus cinctus - female Calameuta clavata? - Cephus cinctus - female sawfly - Cephus cinctus black and yellow wasp - Cephus cinctus Stem Sawfly - Cephus cinctus
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 Cephidae (Stem Sawflies)
Tribe Cephini
Genus Cephus
Species cinctus (Wheat Stem Sawfly)
Explanation of Names
Cephus cinctus Norton 1872
cinctus = 'belted, banded'
Size
up to 10 mm(1)
Range
NA (probably introduced, now transcontinental: PA-GA to BC-CA), ne. Asia (Altai to Kamtschatka & n. Japan)(1)
Food
hosts: grain crops (esp. wheat), feral & native grasses (members of several Holarctic grass genera); in dry years, C. cinctus would literally starve on the truly native hosts(1)
Life Cycle
Larva overwinters within a wheat stub, under the ground. In the spring it pupates and emerges as an adult in June. The female lays a single egg and the larva feeds inside the stem until late summer.
females show little selectivity and would lay eggs into any available stem of the correct size, including those of plants where larvae will not mature(1)
details in(2)
Remarks
earliest NA record: CO, NV 1872; major pest of wheat and other cereals since 1895 (economically important damage is concentrated in the n. Great Plains)(1)
Works Cited
1.On the geographic origin of the wheat stem sawfly (Hym.: Cephidae): a new hypothesis of introduction from northeastern Asia
Ivie M.A. 2001. American Entomologist 47: 84-97.
2.Wheat stem sawfly biology
Fulbright J., Wanner K., Weaver D. 2011. Montguide MT201107AG, 3 pp.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 17 July, 2009 - 6:51pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 31 July, 2014 - 2:13pm

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