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About 25mm long. Pale turquoise, rounded on top, flat underneath, white line at hard margin, 6 forelegs, small pair of cerci at tail, ?
Eucalyptus stem in wetlands reserve.
Why no rear legs, prolegs or claspers. (See next spotting same tree)
Spotted on Mar 22, 2013
Submitted on Mar 23, 2013
4 Comments
Thanks Martin. I was just wondering why you linked the P dorsalis spotting to this one. (I often get tangled in tabs :)
I believe your adult is correctly named, its a great shot..
I believe its larvae are black. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/383...
I suspect your pale turquoise larvae, and mine, are lepidopteran. The head is lepidopteran. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/379... . The claspers seem to be retractable. The tail flicking in mine is odd, but Paropsisterna even do this. There seem to be two pairs of weak prolegs in this genus. I am not convinced yet and am open to contrary views.
Do you think this larva is Perga dorsalis ? (Steel-blue sawfly) or is my sawfly wrongly named?
This is clearly the same larvae as here
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/189...
The sawfly is here if anyone wants to observe this great photo.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/198...