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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 » Fenusa » European Alder Leaf-mining Sawfly (Fenusa dohrnii)

Species Fenusa dohrnii - European Alder Leaf-mining Sawfly

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

TENTHREDININAE Heterarthrinae: Fenusa dohrnii? #1 - Fenusa dohrnii

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 Fenusa

Species dohrnii (European Alder Leaf-mining Sawfly)

Other Common Names

European Alder Leafminer

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Caliosysphinga dohrni Tischbein, 1846

Explanation of Names

Fenusa dohrnii (Tischbein, 1846)

Size

♀ ~4 mm(1)

Range

holarctic; transcontinental in so. Canada & n. US south to PA-IL-UT-NM-OR(1)

Food

host: Alnus (alders); larvae mine in the leaves(1)

Life Cycle

Likely multiple generations per year(1)

Overwinter as larvae in the ground; pupation occurs in spring.(2)

Adults lay eggs in late May and early June. Full-grown larvae drop to the ground to pupate.(2)

A 2nd generation of adults appear from late July to early Sept.(2)

Remarks

males unknown(1)

Internet References

Edmunds, Rob. (2007). Fenusa dohrnii (Tischbein, 1846). British Leafminers.(3)

Pitkin, Brian, Willem N. Ellis, Colin Plant, & Rob Edmunds. (2007-2019). Fenusa dohrnii (Tischbein, 1846). The Leaf and Stem Mines of British Flies and Other Insects (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera).(4)

Ellis, Willem N. (2007). Fenusa dohrnii (Tischbein, 1846). Leafminers and plant galls of Europe.(5)

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.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

3.	British leafminers

4.	Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. (2007-) The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects

5.	Ellis W.N. (2007-) Leafminers of Europe

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 24 November, 2013 - 6:02pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Marci Hess, PaleoJon
Last updated 4 September, 2023 - 11:55am

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