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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 » Monostegia » Monostegia abdominalis
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Blue-grey sawfly larva - Monostegia abdominalis
Copyright © 2004 Rob Broekhuis

Blue-grey sawfly larva - Monostegia abdominalis
Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
August 18, 2004
I saw the recent ID request for a spotted sawfly larva, and the comment that there is an expert around here - so let me submit this one I spotted a few weeks ago. My lysimachia punctata was crawling with them, and eventually skeletonized - the larvae disappeared, but didn't damage any neighboring plants. Would they have dropped to the soil, perhaps burrowed in to pupate? Another photo I took, of poorer quality, shows about 7 pairs of prolegs.
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Contributed by Rob Broekhuis on 9 September, 2004 - 9:26pm
Last updated 16 July, 2019 - 7:51am

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Sawfly Larvae.
… Charley Eiseman, 16 July, 2019 - 7:51am login or register to post comments

Blue-grey sawfly larva
Monostegia abdominalis (based on the structure, color of the body and head, host plant).
… Alexander Boldyrev, 16 July, 2019 - 3:06am login or register to post comments

sawfly larvae on yellow loosestrife
See this note for another image of sawfly larvae on yellow loosestife.
… John Pearson, 28 November, 2009 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps.
… Beatriz Moisset, 6 October, 2008 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

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