Pamphiliidae
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| Pamphiliidae | |
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| Acantholyda nemoralis | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Symphyta |
| Superfamily: | Megalodontoidea |
| Family: | Pamphiliidae Cameron, 1890 |
| Diversity | |
| about 200 species in 8 genera | |
The Pamphiliidae (sometimes incorrectly spelled Pamphilidae) are a small family within the Symphyta, containing some 200 species from the temperate regions of North America and Eurasia. The larvae feed on plants (often conifers), using silk to either build webs or tents, or to roll leaves into tubes, in which they feed, thus earning them the common names leaf-rolling sawflies or web-spinning sawflies. They are distinguished from the closely related Megalodontesidae by their simple, filiform antennae.
[edit] Extant genera
- Acantholyda Costa, 1894
- Caenolyda Konow, 1897
- Cephalcia Panzer, 1805
- Kelidoptera Konow, 1897
- Neurotoma Konow, 1897
- Onycholyda Takeuchi, 1938
- Pamphilius Latreille, 1802
- Pseudocephaleia Zirngiebl, 1937
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