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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) » Allantinae » Eriocampini » Eriocampa

Genus Eriocampa

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Internet References · Works Cited
White, spongy, about 1 inch or so long. What kind of caterpillar is this? - Eriocampa juglandis Insect - Eriocampa ovata Butternut Woolly Worm Sawfly - Eriocampa juglandis unknown hymenoptera - Eriocampa ovata Eriocampa ovata? - Eriocampa ovata 9036036 sawfly - Eriocampa ovata Tenthredinidae sp ? - Eriocampa ovata Sawfly specimen - Eriocampa ovata
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 Allantinae
Tribe Eriocampini
Genus Eriocampa
Explanation of Names
Eriocampa Hartig 1837
Erio means wool
Size
2 spp. in our area(1), ~10 total
Internet References
EoL
Works Cited
1.Nearctic sawflies. IV. Allantinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
Smith D.R. 1979. Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1595. 172 pp.
Contributed by tom murray on 19 September, 2005 - 7:44pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 7 September, 2015 - 12:38pm

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