Arge melanochra
Length: 7 to 8 mm. Orange bodied with a black head and thorax.
Superficially similar to the Bramble Sawfly, Arge cyanocrocea, but the coloured stigma is smaller and more spot like.
- long final antennal segment
- orange abdomen
- black thorax
- clear intercostal
- hind leg tibiae are largely yellow
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Found in areas where Hawthorn is present.
Summer.
Associated with Hawthorn.
Infrequent and local in Britain and with a very southerly distribution.
Rare in Leicestershire and Rutland. The Leire record of 8th July 2012 is the first record for VC55.
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
08 July 2012
female - specimen examined - 1st for VC55
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
08 July 2012
female - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk Leire
08 July 2012
female - specimen examined
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Sawflies
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hymenoptera
- Family:
- Argidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 08/07/2012 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 28/06/2023 (Pochin, Christine)
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Paul Stevens
Seaton
07 July 2016
Arge melanochra
David Nicholls
Asfordby Hill
28 June 2019
