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Tenthredo notha

Tenthredo notha, a common sawfly, is a species belonging to the family Tenthredinidae subfamily Tenthrediniinae.

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Tenthredo notha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Family: Tenthredinidae
Genus: Tenthredo
Species:
T. notha
Binomial name
Tenthredo notha
Klug, 1814
Synonyms
  • Allantus perkinsi Morice, 1919
  • Tenthredo schaefferi f. perkinsi (Morice, 1919)

Tenthredo notha, a common sawfly, is a species belonging to the family Tenthredinidae subfamily Tenthrediniinae.1

Distribution

This species is mainly present in British Isles, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece.2

Description

The adults grow up to 8–11 millimetres (0.31–0.43 in) long.3 These quite large sawflies have a lemon-yellow abdomen with black markings. This species is very similar to Tenthredo arcuata and Tenthredo brevicornis.4

Biology

They can be encountered from June through September feeding on small insects and on nectar and pollen of flowers (especially on Apiaceae species).3

The larvae mainly feed on clover (Trifolium repens), they overwinter as eonymph, pupating and emerging the following Spring.3

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