Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Most of these sawflies are small black insects, among the smallest of the Tenthredinidae. Larvae of the Caliroini feed externally, skeletonizing the foliage of the host, and larvae of the Heterarthrini and Fenusini are all leafminers.
- bibliographic citation
- Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. 1979. Prepared cooperatively by specialists on the various groups of Hymenoptera under the direction of Karl V. Krombein and Paul D. Hurd, Jr., Smithsonian Institution, and David R. Smith and B. D. Burks, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Insect Identification and Beneficial Insect Introduction Institute. Science and Education Administration, United States Department of Agriculture.
