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Fenusa Leach

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Tenthredinidae; Subfamily: Heterarthrinae)

Fenusa Leach, 1817. Type species: Tenthredo (Emphytus) pumila Klug, 1818 [= Fenusa (Fenusa) pumila Leach, 1817, by monotypy]. Synonyms listed by Taeger et al. (2010). 

Classification

Fenusa dohrnii Tischbein, 1846

Distribution

Eurasia and North America. Introduced into South Africa.

Biology

Phytophagous. Larvae are leaf miners feeding on leaves of Alnus (Alder trees) (Betulaceae) forming blotch mines (Prinsloo,1985).

References

Goulet, H. 1993. Superfamilies Cephoidea, Megalodontoidea, Orussoidea, Siricoidea, Tenthredinoidea and Xyeloidea (pp. 101-129). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Koch F, Goergen G & van Noort S. 2015. The sawflies of Namibia and the western parts of South Africa (Symphyta, Hymenoptera). ABC Taxa 15: 1-262.

Picker, M., Griffiths, C & Weaving, A. 2002. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.

Prinsloo, G.L. 1985. Suborder Symphyta. In: Scholtz, C.H. & Holm, E. (Eds). Insects of Southern Africa. Butterworth, Durban: 395-399.

Taeger, A., Blank, S.M. & Liston, A.D. 2010. World Catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa 2580: 1-1064.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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