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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) » Selandriinae » Dolerini » Dolerus » Dolerus nitens

Species Dolerus nitens

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Internet References · Works Cited
Sawfly - Dolerus nitens Dolerus nitrens? - Dolerus nitens Is it some kind of wasp? - Dolerus nitens Dolerus? - Dolerus nitens Early spring sawfly - Dolerus nitens wasp - Dolerus nitens Sawfly on early-blooming willow - Dolerus nitens black sawfly - Dolerus nitens - female
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 Selandriinae
Tribe Dolerini
Genus Dolerus
Species nitens (Dolerus nitens)
Explanation of Names
Dolerus nitens Zaddach 1859
Size
9-10 mm(1)
Identification
All black
Range
native to w. Palaearctic(1), adventive and widespread in NA
Season
Very early spring; flies earlier than other congeners
Internet References
Species page(2)
Works Cited
1.Keys to the insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. 3. Hymenoptera. Part 6.
Zhelokhovtsev A.N., Tobias V.I., Kozlov M.A. 1993. Keys to the Fauna of the USSR 158: 1-432.
2.NatureSpot: recording the wildlife of Leicestershire and Rutland
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 14 December, 2005 - 9:45am
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 27 November, 2013 - 3:43pm

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