| Red Long-tailed Sawfly PERGIDAE, SYMPHYTA, HYMENOPTERA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Tony Bailey, Pimpana, Queensland)
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| Red Long-tailed Sawfly PERGIDAE, SYMPHYTA, HYMENOPTERA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of Tony Bailey, Pimpana, Queensland)
These are not true Caterpillars, but are the larvae of a Sawfly (which is really a wasp, or more accurately a Symphytan). When young, these larvae are gregarious sitting side by side as they eat a host plant leaf. They feed on :
The species has been found in
Further reading :
Pergidae of the World,
An online catalogue of the sawfly family Pergidae (Symphyta),
Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 2009.
H.J. Elliott and Richard Bashford,
Notes on the biology and behaviour of eucalypt-defoliating Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Pergidae) in Tasmania,
Forestry Tasmania, 1995.
 not-lepidoptera |  not-caterpillars |  Lepidoptera |  not-moths |  not-lepidoptera |
(written 27 January 2018)