Fenusa pumila

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Fenusa pumila
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Fenusa pumila leafmines Museum Wiesbaden
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Family: Tenthredinidae
Genus: Fenusa
Species:
F. pumila
Binomial name
Fenusa pumila
Leach, 1817
Synonyms

Tenthredo pumila Klug, 1818
Fenusa pusilla Auctt. (not Lepeletier)
Fenusa fuliginosa Healy, 1869
Fenusa minima Brischke, 1883 [1]

Fenusa pumila, the birch leafminer, is a species of sawfly in the family Tenthredinidae. It is found in Europe and has been introduced into North America. [2]

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<i>Eriocampa</i> Genus of sawflies

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References

  1. Liston, A. D., Knight, G. T., Sheppard, D. A., Broad, G. R., & Livermore, L. (2014). Checklist of british and irish hymenoptera - sawflies, 'symphyta'. Biodiversity data journal, (2), e1168. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1168