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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Stem Sawflies (Cephidae) » Cephini » Calameuta » Calameuta clavata

Species Calameuta clavata

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Works Cited
Stem Sawfly - Calameuta clavata Stem sawfly - Calameuta clavata Wasp - Calameuta clavata - female Stem Sawfly 2 - Calameuta clavata - male wasp - Calameuta clavata - female Black and yellow sawfly - Calameuta clavata Cephid on buttercup - Calameuta clavata Sawfly - Calameuta clavata
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 Cephidae (Stem Sawflies)
Tribe Cephini
Genus Calameuta
Species clavata (Calameuta clavata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cephus clavatus(1)
Explanation of Names
Calameuta clavata (Norton 1869)
Identification
Distinguishing from the similar Cephus cinctus explained here.
Range
w. NA
Food
Larvae are grass stem borers. Adults commonly attracted to yellow flowers. --Dave Smith
Remarks
Photos of abdomens and heads of C. clavata and C. middlekauffi, the only other known nearctic member of the genus in(2)
Works Cited
1.The Cephid Stem Borers of California (Hymenoptera: Cephidae)
Woodrow W. Middlekauff. 1969. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, Volume 11, University of California Press.
2.A New Western Nearctic species of Calameuta Konow (Hymenoptera : Cephidae)
David R. Smith and Nathan M. Schiff. 2005. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 107: 864-868.
Contributed by Bob Carlson on 19 June, 2010 - 9:14pm
Additional contributions by Aaron Schusteff, Vox Sciurorum, kschnei, v belov
Last updated 3 May, 2018 - 3:05am

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