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DESCRIPTION AND SEASONAL HISTORY OF A LEAF MINER ON POPLAR MESSA POPULIFOLIELLA (HYMENOPTERA: TENTHREDINIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. R. Underwood
Affiliation:
Forest Research Laboratory, Department of Forestry and Rural Development, Fredericton, New Brunswick
F. A. Titus
Affiliation:
Forest Research Laboratory, Department of Forestry and Rural Development, Fredericton, New Brunswick

Abstract

Messa populifoliella (Townsend), long known in the United States but new in Canada, is univoltine and overwinters as a prepupa in the soil beneath the host tree. In New Brunswick the larvae mine the leaves of Populus eugenei Simon-Louis creating blotch mines. The various stages of the sawfly are described and pictured and six parasite species are named.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1968

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