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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) » Heterarthrinae » Fenusini » Metallus » Metallus lanceolatus

Species Metallus lanceolatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

White Avens Leaf Mine [=Metallus lanceolatus?] ID Request - Metallus lanceolatus

Tenthredinidae, adult #1 - Metallus lanceolatus - female

White avens leaf miner - Metallus lanceolatus

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 Heterarthrinae

Tribe Fenusini

Genus Metallus

Species lanceolatus (Metallus lanceolatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Metallus bensoni Smith 1971, Metallus gei (Brischke 1883)

Explanation of Names

Metallus lanceolatus (Thomson 1870)

Size

♀ 3.5‒4.5 mm(1)(2)

Range

native to Europe(2), adventive in our area and now found across n. NA (BC‒NS to OR‒IA‒MD)(3)

Food

Larvae mine in leaves of avens (Geum, Rosaceae)(4)

Life Cycle

Leaf mine in Avens

larva

adult

Remarks

earliest NA record: BC 1936(1)

Internet References

Species pages: Ellis (2007) (Europe)(4) | Edmunds (2007) (UK)(5) | Pitkin et al. (2007-) (UK)(6)

Works Cited

1.	Nearctic sawflies. III. Heterarthrinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) D.R. Smith. 1971. Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1420. 84 pp.

2.	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.

3.	Nearctic Species of Metallus Forbes (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae): biology and distribution Eiseman C.S., Smith D.R. 2017. Proc. Ent Soc. Wash. 119: 551‒565.

4.	Ellis W.N. (2007-) Leafminers of Europe

5.	British leafminers

6.	Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. (2007-) The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 20 June, 2012 - 10:53am
Additional contributions by v belov, marcie oconnor, behmrachel
Last updated 25 December, 2023 - 7:04pm

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