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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies (Pamphiliidae) » Pamphiliinae » Onycholyda » Onycholyda amplecta
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Sawfly? - Onycholyda amplecta - female
Copyright © 2006 Dorothy E. Pugh

Sawfly? - Onycholyda amplecta - Female
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, North Carolina, USA
June 7, 2006
Size: 3/4 inch long
It looked like a lampyrid beetle from a distance, but it's clearly neither a beetle nor a fly. It was crawling on grass blades, flew from one to another.
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Contributed by Dorothy E. Pugh on 7 June, 2006 - 6:25pm
Last updated 30 September, 2006 - 4:00pm

Moved
Moved from Webspinning and Leafrolling Sawflies.
… john and jane balaban, 30 September, 2006 - 4:00pm login or register to post comments

Onycholyda amplecta (F.)
female; genus formerly Pamphilius
… John S. Ascher, 30 September, 2006 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments

 
Amazing!
Thanks for this information. How did you figure this out? This seems to be a very obscure species.
… Dorothy E. Pugh, 30 September, 2006 - 2:43pm login or register to post comments

 
we have a specimen
in the AMNH
… John S. Ascher, 5 October, 2006 - 10:40am login or register to post comments

Wow.
Yes, it is a sawfly, one of the web-spinning sawflies in the family Pamphiliidae. They tend to be rather ornate, but this one takes the cake I think:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 7 June, 2006 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

 
Sawfly genus
Thanks! Do you think it might be a member of the Acantholyda genus?
… Dorothy E. Pugh, 8 June, 2006 - 7:06am login or register to post comments

 
Most likely Acantholyda...
Indeed, I think this female is a member of this genus.
… Richard Vernier, 11 June, 2006 - 4:33am login or register to post comments

 
Oh my god
I want to see one of these.
… Herschel Raney, 7 June, 2006 - 9:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Web-spinning sawfly
Isn't it a cutie? Maybe the duck-billed platypus of the Hymenoptera!
… Dorothy E. Pugh, 8 June, 2006 - 10:02am login or register to post comments

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