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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) » Tenthredininae » Sciapterygini » Zaschizonyx » Zaschizonyx montana
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Leaf-eater - Zaschizonyx montana
Copyright © 2013 Jessica Womack

Leaf-eater - Zaschizonyx montana
Honey Grove, Fannin County, Texas, USA
April 13, 2013
Size: maybe 1/2 an inch
It was eating the leaf.

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Leaf-eater - Zaschizonyx montana Leaf-eater - Zaschizonyx montana
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Contributed by Jessica Womack on 13 April, 2013 - 2:15pm
Last updated 14 April, 2013 - 11:48am

Photo use
I am writing a press release for a sawfly paper I recently published and was hoping to use this photo in it. If given permission to use the photo I will of course give you full attribution as the photographer.
… Michael Skvarla, 13 May, 2016 - 8:19am login or register to post comments

 
Of course!
I'd be happy for you to use the image. Thank you!
… Jessica Womack, 13 May, 2016 - 8:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Common Sawflies.
… v belov, 14 April, 2013 - 11:48am login or register to post comments

Tenthredinidae, Tenthredininae
Zaschizonyx Montana (Cresson), female. Symphoricarpos is recorded as the larval food plant. Nice pictures of this species.
… Dave Smith, 14 April, 2013 - 7:45am login or register to post comments

 
species
I had considered it might be a sawfly, but then I read that adult sawflies feed mostly on nectar and the Tenthredinidae may feed on insects. I was surprised to see it eating so much of the leaf.

Thank you for the information!
… Jessica Womack, 14 April, 2013 - 10:20am login or register to post comments

 
species name
montana, lower case "m"
… Dave Smith, 14 April, 2013 - 7:49am login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention; wonderful pics!
Moved from ID Request.
host info may prove critical in identifying sawfly species. also, pls note that size data only help if measured in mm, otherwise the field is better left blank; estimates are useless for identification purposes, and more often mislead than help.
… v belov, 13 April, 2013 - 2:24pm login or register to post comments

 
host plant
Thank you! I was trying to figure out what kind of plant it was eating. I believe it was coralberry, as Dave Smith noted.
… Jessica Womack, 14 April, 2013 - 10:14am login or register to post comments

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