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Lophyrotoma zonalis
Colourful green-yellow-orange sawfly larvae with black heads 25mm
On Melaleuca quinquenervia.
These sawfly totally destroy my young paperbarks each year. When the larvae are very small they only eat the soft parts of the leaf leaving a skeleton of veins. See here... www.projectnoah.org/spottings/9364491 ref... http://australianmuseum.net.au/Sawflies
Spotted on Dec 26, 2011
Submitted on Dec 28, 2011
6 Comments
Nice... and high fives all round.
Ha! we did it again martin. I was editing and when I finished you had a suggestion. Thanks - it's the same as I found on a German site....
http://www.pergidae.net/pl006.htm
Consider this one; Lophyrotoma zonalis,
http://www.saveourwaterwaysnow.com.au/01...
It's definitely on a maleleuca.
Hi martin - I've been looking at that link and because the food type is wrong I'm determined to identify exactly what plant this is - will post again. Enjoy Buxton.
Now this does look like the green longtail sawfly. But the foodplant is wrong including eucalyptus and Angophora (tree) http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_... I go to Buxton tomorrow and will find some more:)