Eurys laetus (Pergidae:Euryinae)
Workbook
Note: This is a “work in progress”. Changes may be made as I discover additional relevant information.
The following images were taken of a pinned specimen of a female Eurys laetus, collected around Mt. Hope, Vic. by Joshua Grubb, La Trobe University.
Photos courtesy of Yennifer Longo, La Trobe University.
References:
Benson, R.B. 1934: 462, 466, 467. A classification of the sawflies of the family Pterygophoridae, with a revision of the Australian members of the subfamily Euryinae (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 82: 461-478.
Benson, R.B. 1963: 82. Some new Western Australian sawflies of the Euryinae and Phylacteophaginae (Hymenoptera, Pergidae). Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 46: 81-8
Kirby, W.F. 1882: 94 List of Hymenoptera, with descriptions and figures of the typical specimens in the British Museum. Vol. I. Tenthredinidae and Siricidae. London: British Museum, xxviii
Morice, F.D. 1919: 296, pl. xi, fig. 10. Notes on Australian sawflies, especially the “Authors' Types” and other specimens in the British Museum of Natural History and the Hope Collections of the Oxford University Museum; with diagnostic synopses of the genera and species, and photographs illustrating their structural characters. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 66: 247-333, pls XI-XV.
Westwood, J.O. 1842:24. Descriptions of some exotic species of sawflies. Arcana Entomologica: or Illustrations of New, Rare, and Interesting Insects 1: 23-24.
Westwood, J.O. 1880. A monograph of the sawflies composing the Australian genus Perga of Leach. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880: 359-379
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