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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) » Allantinae » Empriini » Ametastegia

Genus Ametastegia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Remarks · Works Cited
sawfly - Ametastegia aperta - male sawfly - Ametastegia equiseti - male Pale legged Black Sawfly - Ametastegia articulata unknown - Ametastegia Ametastegia pallipes? - Ametastegia pallipes Tenthredinidae, pupa - Ametastegia common sawfly - Ametastegia common sawfly - Ametastegia
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 Allantinae
Tribe Empriini
Genus Ametastegia
Explanation of Names
Ametastegia Costa 1882
Numbers
15 spp. in our area(1)
Remarks
"Species of this Holarctic genus feed on herbaceous plants. On maturing, larvae bore into soft substances to form a pupal cell. This secondary host may be apples, other fruits, soft wood, or pith of other plants. Such records as hosts for species of this genus do not constitute the true host on which the larvae feed." (2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Contributed by Steve Nanz on 16 July, 2010 - 4:34am
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 9 December, 2015 - 6:11am

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