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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) » Heterarthrinae » Caliroini » Caliroa » On oak/chestnut; yellow/orange on thorax (Caliroa On oak/chestnut; yellow/orange on thorax) » Scarlet Oak Sawfly (Caliroa quercuscoccinae)

Species Caliroa quercuscoccinae - Scarlet Oak Sawfly

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Food · Life Cycle · Internet References
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 Heterarthrinae
Tribe Caliroini
Genus Caliroa
No Taxon (On oak/chestnut; yellow/orange on thorax)
Species quercuscoccinae (Scarlet Oak Sawfly)
Explanation of Names
Author: Dyar
Size
Adult: 6-8 mm. L=Full grown larva: 12 mm.
Identification
Larvae are slug like. Adults black with yellowish legs.
Food
Larvae feed on the underside of scarlet, black, pin, and white oak leaves eventually skeletonizing the leaves.
Life Cycle
Larvae overwinter in cocoons in the litter layer. Adults emerge in the spring. There may be 2 to 3 generation per year.
Internet References

[url=http://www.forestpests.org/southern/slugoak.html]Forest Pests.
Discover Life.
Department of Agriculture.
Iowa State University
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 5 August, 2009 - 6:15pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 7 May, 2013 - 6:26pm

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