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Cephus
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Cephus

Cephus is a genus of sawflies belonging to the family Cephidae.

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11 branches of this genus, most-observed first

European Wheat Stem Sawfly

speciesCephus pygmeus

Angled Stem-sawfly

speciesCephus spinipes

Cephus fumipennis

speciesCephus fumipennis

Wood Stem-sawfly

speciesCephus nigrinus

Cephus lateralis

speciesCephus lateralis

Wheat Stem Sawfly

speciesCephus cinctus

Cephus brachycercus

speciesCephus brachycercus

Cephus pulcher

speciesCephus pulcher

Cephus nigripennis

speciesCephus nigripennis

Cephus zahaikevitshi

speciesCephus zahaikevitshi

Cephus sareptanus

speciesCephus sareptanus

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Where it lives

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Cephus in Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert — Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis (1800)

Jean Baptiste Audebert · 1800 · p.152

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 143248.