Species Cephus pygmaeus - European Wheat Stem Sawfly

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

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 Cephidae (Stem Sawflies)

Tribe Cephini

Genus Cephus

Species pygmaeus (European Wheat Stem Sawfly)

Explanation of Names

Cephus pygmeus (Linnaeus 1767) [spelling per(1)]

Size

5-11 mm(2)

Range

native to, and widespread across Eurasia & N. Africa, adventive in NA (ne. US & Canada)(2)

Remarks

earliest NA record: NY 1887 (Udine 1941)

no longer economically important due to the introduction and establishment of parasitoid wasps in the 1930s(3)

Internet References

Fact sheet(2)

Works Cited

1.	de Jong Y.S.D.M. et al. (2014) Fauna Europaea - all European animal species on the web. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4034.

2.	Afonin A.N. et al., eds. (2008) Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries

3.	Wheat stem sawfly biology Fulbright J., Wanner K., Weaver D. 2011. Montguide MT201107AG, 3 pp.

Contributed by v belov on 20 June, 2014 - 7:27pm
Last updated 31 July, 2014 - 2:15pm

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