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Photo #57889: Geometridae sp.

Larva

Geometridae

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Base gallery. Alive insect.

Photo: Yuri Semejkin. Image without retouching at the website. Identified by: Andrey Ponomarev

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2016-06-03 00:00:00, Владивосток, Академгородок

Photographer's comment: Taken on Fraxinus rhynchophylla

Comments on this image

03.04.2024 12:43, Andrey Ponomarev

Sawflies don't have legs like that. The head is not a sign.

01.04.2024 7:52, Vitaly Gumenuk

Judging by the bald head this is a sawfly

30.03.2024 20:46, Peter Khramov Corrected data.

Tenthredinidae / Yuri Semejkin → Geometridae / Andrey Ponomarev.

27.03.2024 14:44, Andrey Ponomarev

Geometridae

04.06.2016 11:25, Vasiliy Feoktistov

the group can be distinguished from non-specialist butterfly caterpillars easily.
In sawfly larvae prolegs 6-8 pairs, while the butterfly caterpillars up to 5 pairs.
Something like this :)

04.06.2016 1:58, Yuri Semejkin

Basil Good! And if we will see the number of pairs prolegs, you can identify? The larva is mine.

03.06.2016 19:24, Vasiliy Feoktistov

Yuri, you're right. Court of bending this larva of a sawfly is. Still, to see the number of pairs prolegs, but this perspective, it is not possible (

03.06.2016 19:20, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Vasiliy Feoktistov → Yuri Semejkin.

03.06.2016 19:20, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Not identified → Tenthredinidae / Confidently identified / Vasiliy Feoktistov.

03.06.2016 12:37, Yuri Semejkin

Sawflies?

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