Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Dolerini

Common Sawfly - Dolerus Unknown Bug - Dolerus Dolerus? - Dolerus Sawfly? - Dolerus Dolerus nitens, or Dolerus sp at least?  - Dolerus Tenthredinidae? - Dolerus Sawfly - Dolerus Dolerus nitens? - Dolerus
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 Selandriinae
Tribe Dolerini
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dolerinae Thomson 1871; recent classifications list Dolerinae as a tribe of Selandriinae (1).
Revised in(2)
Numbers
2 genera (of which one monotypic), with 73 spp. in our area and ~180 total(1)
Range
holarctic, temperate and boreal regions (one montane sp. in e. Africa)(1)
Food
various grasses and horsetails(1)
Works Cited
1.The genera and subgenera of the sawflies of Canada and Alaska (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)
Goulet H. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 20. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 235 pp.
2.The genera and species of the Nearctic Dolerini (Symphyta, Tenthredinidae, Selandriinae): Classification and phylogeny
Goulet H. 1986. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 135: 1-208.