Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sawfly

Posted by alon on 20-07-2007 21:08
#1
What is family of this sawfly? Maybe Tenthredinidae?
02.05.2007, ~10 mm, kitchen garden, west Poland

Posted by Juergen Peters on 23-07-2007 07:06
#2
Hello, alon!

I think genus Macrophya, possibly a male M. montana (very abundant here in Germany around that time). But I'm no expert.

Posted by alon on 23-07-2007 20:40
#3
Thanks a lot! You helped me very much.
You are right in genus id, but it is not M. montana. M. montana has first and second pair legs yellow. It's M. albicincta.