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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) » Tenthredininae » Macrophyini » Macrophya » Macrophya varia

Species Macrophya varia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · See Also · Works Cited
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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 Tenthredininae
Tribe Macrophyini
Genus Macrophya
Species varia (Macrophya varia)
Explanation of Names
Macrophya varia (Norton, 1860)
Identification
One of only two species of Macrophya combining white antennal tips and white tarsi (the other being M. festana). Appropriately for its epithet, other markings are quite variable, including the extent of pale markings around the orbits. There is also a melanic form with the legs and abdomen otherwise very dark rather than rufoaurantius.(1)
Range
transcontinental southern Canada and (primarily) eastern US: NS-BC to NC-MS-MN(1)
See Also
In both sexes, regions that would be have a black ground color in M. varia are rufoaurantius in M. festana, including the basal plates, metepistemum, metepimeron, and hind coxae.
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Macrophya Dahlbom (Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Tenthredinidae) of North America
Gibson G.A.P. 1980. Mem. Ent. Soc. Canada 114: 1‒167.
Contributed by v belov on 4 October, 2009 - 11:22am
Additional contributions by PaleoJon
Last updated 21 March, 2023 - 3:14am

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