(Family Tenthredinidae)
Overview • Description • Distribution • Taxonomy
Description |
Adults are 3 ⁄16″ to ¾″ (5 to 20 mm) in length. The thorax and abdomen are broadly connected, not slender and waist-like. There is a clear separation between the last exoskeletal plate on the side of the thorax (metapleuron) and the first plate on the abdomen. The antennae are thread-like have 5 to 9, usually 9 segments beyond the scape and pedicel at the base. The larvae look like small caterpillars but have 6 or more pairs of prolegs. With rare exceptions, caterpillars have only 3 to 5 pairs. Caterpillars also have tiny hook-like hairs (crochets) at the end of each proleg. Sawfly larvae do not. |
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Taxonomy |
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Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, and sawflies) |
Suborder |
Symphyta (sawflies, horntails, and wood wasps) |
Superfamily |
Tenthredinoidea (typical sawflies) |
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Subfamily Allantinae Subfamily Athaliinae Subfamily Blennocampinae Subfamily Heterarthrinae Subfamily Nematinae Subfamily Selandriinae Subfamily Tenthredininae |
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Common Names |
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common sawflies tenthredinid sawflies |
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Alfredo Colon |
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Common Sawfly (Tenthredinidae: Tenthredo?) on Leaf |
About
Published on Jun 24, 2012 Photographed at the Turtle River State Park, North Dakota (24 June 2012). |
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Alfredo Colon 7/7/2024 |
Location: Albany, NY |
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Alfredo Colon |
Location: Albany, NY |
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Alfredo Colon 8/11/2022 |
Location: Albany, NY |
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Alfredo Colon 8/9/2019 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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Alfredo Colon Summer 2018 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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Alfredo Colon 7/28/2018 |
Location: Woodbury, Minnesota |
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