Pontania terminalis

Type locality. — Near New York City.

Host plant. — Salix sericea, according to Smith and Fritz (1996). The host plant relationships of P. terminalis need to be confirmed. There is possibly more than one- species under this name.

Notes. — The valid name is Pontania (Pontania) terminalis Marlatt, and it belongs to the crassispina group. The larvae and biology were described by Dyar (1897a). It produces leaf rolls on willow similar to P. populi except with a smaller swelling at the site of egg laying. The larvae eat parenchyma and leave the upper cuticle intact, which is typical for this species group. The slight ventroapical indentation of the sheath (Fig. 12) and leaf-folding habit led to the placement of this species in Phyllocolpa by Smith and Fritz (1996).

- Alexey Zinovjev, David Smith: (1999) Types and biological notes of the eastern North American sawflies of Pontania Costa and Phyllocolpa Benson (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) described by Marlatt, Dyar, and Rohwer^©

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