Tenthredo arcuata
Length 8 to 11 mm. Similar to several other Tenthredo species, particularly Tenthredo notha, with an abdomen that is banded with greeny-yellow and black and wings that are slightly shaded brown with a long brown stigma along the edge.
This species has a red ID rating and unless identified by a known expert you must provide a satisfactory explanation of how it was identified for the record to be accepted.
Flower rich meadows.
April to July.
The nocturnal larva grazes the leaves of White Clover.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 June 2013
female - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 June 2013
female - specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 May 2014
female - specimen examined
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Species profile
- Species group:
- insect - hymenopteran
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hymenoptera
- Family:
- Tenthredinidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 29/06/2013 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 29/05/2014 (Calow, Graham)
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Graham Calow
Sapcote
29 June 2013
female - specimen examined
Paul Ruddoch
Melton Mowbray Country Park
30 June 2014
Lostash
Whetstone GCR Footpath
03 June 2015
