1 Steel-blue sawfly, spitfire at Carwoola, NSW
Identification history
| Perga dorsalis | 5 Jan 2023 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Perga dorsalis | 2 Jan 2023 | SimoneC | ||
| Unidentified | 2 Jan 2023 | FeralGhostbat |
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User's notes
I am not sure on this. It looks like it was ‘prepping’ the lead to lay eggs or larvae?
2 comments
SimoneC
wrote:
2 Jan 2023
Actually a sawfly, could be about to lay eggs, it’s larvae are spitfires, so it would lay on a gum tree
Jimbobo
wrote:
5 Mar 2025
Either Perga affinis or Perga dorsalis. Unfortunately the details of ovipositor sheath hairs aren't clear, which is necessary to identify to species.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.272033-35.334264
- Altitude 646.9m
- Maps Molonglo Gorge
- Places Carwoola, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 2 Jan 2023 04:41 PM Recorded on
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Insects Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) FeralGhostbat Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Perga dorsalis Scientific name
- Steel-blue sawfly, spitfire Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Minor weed or pest
- Up to 882.3m Recorded at altitude
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