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Species Arge ochropus - Rose Sawfly

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bright orange insect - Arge ochropus Rose Sawfly - Arge ochropus Arge ochropus - Rose Sawfly - Arge ochropus Insect on rose bush - Arge ochropus Hymenoptera - Arge ochropus sawfly - Arge ochropus sawfly - Arge ochropus Caterpillar1 - Arge ochropus

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 Argidae (Argid Sawflies)
Genus Arge
Species ochropus (Rose Sawfly)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Arge rosae, Arge ochropa

Explanation of Names

Arge ochropus (Gmelin 1790)
ochropus Greek 'yellow-legged'

Size

7-10 mm

Identification

Larva:

Range

native to the Palaearctic and widespread there; in NA, first reported in ON(1), now recorded from other Canadian provinces and the US (mostly in the northeast)

Food

larval host: roses

Remarks

the only representative of the Palaearctic ochropus group (a dozen spp. total) in the New World(1)

Internet References

Encyclopedia of Life
Ecology of Comanster
Wikipedia

Works Cited

1.The sawfly genus Arge (Hymenoptera: Argidae) in the Western Hemisphere
Smith D.R. 1989. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 115: 83‒205.
Contributed by Nick Fensler on 11 August, 2006 - 8:54pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 15 May, 2015 - 4:48pm

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