Kingdom Animalia Family Tenthredinidae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | Class Insecta Subfamily Tenthredininae Genus Cibdela Order Hymenopterans | |
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Similar Rubus alceifolius, Hymenopterans, Argidae, Blue bottle fly, Tenthredinidae | ||
Cibdela janthina is a sawfly of the Tenthredinidae family. This species originates from Sumatra in South-East Asia but had also been introduced to La Réunion in 2007 for biological pest control of Rubus alceifolius, a Rosaceae species that had become an invasive species.
It has a metallic dark-blue colour, the males have a length of approx. 8 mm and the females of 9.5 mm.
A parasitoid of C. janthina is Proterops borneoensis.
References
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