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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 » Fenella » Fenella nigrita

Species Fenella nigrita

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Fenella
Species nigrita (Fenella nigrita)
Explanation of Names
Fenella nigrita Westwood 1839
Size
♀ ~3 mm(1)
Range
native to Europe, adventive in NA (ne. US & adjacent Canada)(1)
Food
the only known sawfly leafminer of Potentilla
Life Cycle
parthenogenetic (males unknown)(1)
Remarks
earliest NA record: ON 1962(1)
Internet References
Species pages: Ellis (2012)(2) | Edmunds (2007)(3) | Pitkin (2013)(4)
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.Ellis W.N. (2007-) Leafminers of Europe
3.British leafminers
4.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 10 September, 2013 - 7:42am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 29 November, 2013 - 5:22pm

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