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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Cimbicid Sawflies (Cimbicidae) » Cimbex » Pacific Sawfly (Cimbex pacificus)

Species Cimbex pacificus - Pacific Sawfly

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Print References
Wasp or bee or fly? - Cimbex pacificus - female Wasp or bee or fly? - Cimbex pacificus - female Cimbex rubida (perhaps?) - Cimbex pacificus - male - female Cimbex rubida - Cimbex pacificus - female Pacific Sawfly (Cimbex pacifica) - Cimbex pacificus Pacific Sawfly (Cimbex pacifica) - Cimbex pacificus Waspy insect - Cimbex pacificus wasp - Cimbex pacificus
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 Cimbicidae (Cimbicid Sawflies)
Genus Cimbex
Species pacificus (Pacific Sawfly)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Cimbex pacifica -- female epithet in error
Explanation of Names
Cimbex pacificus Cresson 1880
pācificus refers to the Pacific range
Size
~19 mm
Identification
Brown on head, mesosoma, and legs except tarsi separate females of this species from females of C. americanus, which have black instead of brown in these areas.
Bicolored antennae, brown except yellow club, black and brown mesosoma, yellow and black pattern or all brown on metasoma separate this species from C. rubidus, in which the entire antenna and nearly entire metasoma are orange-red, and nearly entire mesosoma is red except small black antero-median area.
Range
WA-CA-CO
Food
host: willows
Print References
Keen F.P. (1952) Insect enemies of western forests. USDA misc. publication 273. Washington DC.
Contributed by Joe on 8 August, 2014 - 11:11pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 29 April, 2024 - 12:32am

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