Sawfly Collection

Oriole blackbird, chocolate loricarid catfish
Oriole blackbird, Gymnomystax mexicanus, nest and eggs 3, chocolate loricarid armored catfish, Loricaria cataphracta 2, and pine sawfly, Neodiprion sertifer 1

Saw-fly orchid, Ophrys tenthredinifera. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1817

Curtis British Entomology Plate 97
Hymenoptera: Zaraea fasciata (White-belted Sawfly) [Plant: Adoxa moschatellina (Tuberous Moschatel)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 93
Hymenoptera: Clavellaria marginata (Yellow-margined Sawfly) = Pseudoclavellaria amerinae [Plant: Pyrola media (Intermediate Winter-green)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 89
Hymenoptera: Abia nigricornis = Abia lonicerae (Black-horned Sawfly) [Plant: Genista anglica (Needle Furze)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 54
Hymenoptera: Lophyrus pini = Diprion pini (Pine Sawfly) [Plant: Silene latifolia, = S. alba, Melandrium album (male; Lychnis dioica mas, White Campion)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 49
Hymenoptera: Trichiosoma laterale = Trichiosoma vitelline (Orange-margined Sawfly) [Plant: Hyacinthoides (Endymion) non-scripta (Hyacinthus non-scriptus, Wild Hyacinth)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 41
Hymenoptera: Cimbex decem-maculata = Cimbex americanus (Ten-spotted Sawfly) [Plant: Holcus mollis (Creeping Soft Grass)] Date: 1824-39

Tenthredinidae, Tenthredo, Symphyta

Sawfly larvae devouring a leaf
A group of sawfly larvae devouring a leaf as featured on page 71 of Megabugs by Miranda MacQuitty; Natural History Museum publication, 1995

Sirex noctilio, wood wasp
This species was accidentally introduced into Australia 20 years ago and began to cause serious damage to plantations of softwood trees

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