Brief Summary
provided by Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Commonly called webspinning sawflies, the larvae live solitarily or socially in a web or in a rolled leaf held by silk. The subfamily Cephalciinae is associated with conifers, and the subfamily Pamphiliinae is associated with deciduous trees or shrubs. Adults of most species are large, dorsoventrally flattened insects, and are sometimes common around the flowers of their host plants in the spring.
- 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.
