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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 » Tenthredinini » Tenthredo » images reviewed by D.R. Smith (Tenthredo images reviewed by D.R. Smith)
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Sawfly - Tenthredo
Copyright © 2005 Bruce Marlin

Sawfly - Tenthredo
DuPage County, Illinois, USA
June 15, 2005
Size: 10mm

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Contributed by Bruce Marlin on 9 December, 2005 - 8:42am
Last updated 27 July, 2015 - 10:58pm

Moved
Moved from Tenthredo.
… v belov, 27 July, 2015 - 10:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Tenthredininae.
… v belov, 18 October, 2010 - 9:01pm login or register to post comments

Please
Can an editor make a place for this subfamily?
… Bruce Marlin, 21 December, 2005 - 1:53pm login or register to post comments

Needing some proteins
It is not unusual for females of the Tenthredininae subfamily, to which this nice insect belongs, to devour some small insects they happen to meet on the plants, provided they are still clumsier than themselves.
This is all the more remarkable, as the larvae are wholly vegetarian.
This predacious behavior likely helps to mature a larger number of eggs, just like for haematophagous diptera.
Given the general slender habitus, I would lean for the genus Tenthredopsis, but that is a mere hypothesis!
… Richard Vernier, 14 December, 2005 - 6:30am login or register to post comments

 
Wonderful
Thank you, Richard, for those informative comments.
Can an editor please account for this subfamily, Tenthredininae? Thanks!
… Bruce Marlin, 14 December, 2005 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

 
WOW!
This is one of the most colorful sawflies I've seen! Do you know what kind it is?
… Brittanie McCormack, 30 May, 2007 - 10:51pm login or register to post comments

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