Eriocampa

Eriocampa
Eriocampa juglandis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Symphyta
Family:	Tenthredinidae
Tribe:	Eriocampini
Genus:	Eriocampa Hartig, 1837

Eriocampa is a genus of common sawflies in the family Tenthredinidae. There are about ten described species in Eriocampa.[1][2]

Eriocampa ovata, larva

Eriocampa ovata

Woolly Butternut Sawfly (Eriocampa juglandis) larvae

Seven fossil species are known (see Eriocampa tulameenensis).

Species

These five extant species belong to the genus Eriocampa:

• Eriocampa dorpatica Konow, 1887[1]
• Eriocampa juglandis (butternut woollyworm) [3]
• Eriocampa mitsukurii Rohwer, 1910[1]
• Eriocampa ovata (Linnaeus, 1761) (alder sawfly)[1]
• Eriocampa umbratica (Klug, 1816)[1]

References

1. "Eriocampa". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
2. "Eriocampa Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
3. Kaufman, Kenn (2007). Kaufman Field Guide To Insects Of North America. p. 320.

Further reading

• Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
• Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D., eds. (1979). "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. Retrieved 2018-04-05.
• Smith, D.R. (1979). "Nearctic sawflies. IV. Allantinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)". Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No (1595).

External links

• Media related to Eriocampa at Wikimedia Commons