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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

Genus Macrophya

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Food · Remarks · See Also · Works Cited
Wasp (or Sawfly?) ID Request - Macrophya Sawfly - Macrophya pannosa - female common sawfly - Macrophya succincta - female common sawfly - Macrophya succincta Macrophya? - Macrophya trisyllaba colorful common sawfly - Macrophya varia Macrophya alba? - Macrophya Macrophya alba? - Macrophya
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
revised in(1)
Explanation of Names
Macrophya Dahlbom 1835
Numbers
46 spp. in our area (all but one in the nominate subgenus)(1), >200 total(2)
Food
Larvae have been recorded in Europe from elderberry, mint, Geum, Plantago, Filipendula, ash, Scrophularia, goldenrod, Senecio, Solanum, Ligistrum, Rubus, Geranium, hickory, Valeriana, sedge, various grasses, Potentilla, aster, cherry/plum, Viburnum, buckeye, lilac(2)
Remarks
Images of larvae that are likely to belong to this genus
See Also
Filacus (Tenthredininae: Sciapterygini), whose species used to be treated under Macrophya:


Pseudosiobla excavata (Allantinae: Eriocampini):
Works Cited
1.A revision of the genus Macrophya Dahlbom (Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Tenthredinidae) of North America
Gibson G.A.P. 1980. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 114: 1-167.
2.The genera and subgenera of the sawflies of Canada and Alaska (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)
Goulet H. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 20. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 235 pp.
Contributed by tom murray on 23 November, 2005 - 9:27pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 22 March, 2023 - 12:34am

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