Fenusella nana
Antennae with segment 8 twice as long as broad. Female mainly piceous black with a white labrum and tegulae and off-white knees, tibiae and tarsi of all legs. The male is mainly yellow with white on the tegulae and the outer edges of pronotum and otherwise mostly black or piceous. Frons with a distinct carina enclosing a supra-antennal field below and almost enclosing a frontal area above (open at the top).
Fenusella nana larvae feed in mines in the leaves of birches especially hairy birch.
Size: Approx. 4 - 4.5mm
Status: Widespread
Distribution: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland
Flight period: May to June
Plant associations: Betula spp. esp. Betula pubescens (birches esp. hairy birch)
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- Fenusella nana mine (Hungarian specimen) Credit György Csóka
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- Fenusella nana larva Credit Rob Edmunds
References:
Benson, R.B., 1952. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Hymenoptera, Symphyta, Vol 6, Section 2(a-c), Royal Entomological Society, London
Liston A, Knight G, Sheppard D, Broad G, Livermore L (2014) Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Sawflies, ‘Symphyta’. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1168. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1168