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Family	Cephidae
Sub Family
Description	a family of sawflies
Background to Family	The long, thin adults fly slowly, and can be found on flowerheads. Their larvae bore the stems of host plants; individual genera feed either on a range of rosaceous herbs and shrubs, of broadleaved shrubs and trees, or of grasses (Poaceae). Cereal feeders may be economic pests.

No. taxa in DBIF	12
No. interactions	35
% interactions with British data	89%
No. records	39
% taxa with British data	92%
Notes	Data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, new species to the British list, new interactions, errors in original sources, and misspellings. Comment by Guy Knight, after brief inspection of data for Symphyta, Feb 2007: 'at least two-thirds of the species [need] some editing to the nomenclature or plant associations...there have been many taxonomic changes and additions to the fauna since the 1978 checklist'.; ;
Notes on Sources
Most recent source	1978

Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.


Source	Jones, F.G.W. & Jones, M.G. (1974 ) Pests of Field Crops :159
Source	Klausnitzer, B. (1978) Pflanzenschadlinge, Hauptflugler 9 1-212:44
Source	Benson, R.B.(1951) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects VI:2A 1-49:28
Source	Benson, R.B.(1951) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects VI:2A 1-49:25
Source	Benson, R.B.(1951) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects VI:2A 1-49:26
Source	Klausnitzer, B. (1978) Pflanzenschadlinge, Hauptflugler 9 1-212:42
Source	Benson, R.B.(1951) Handbk Ident. Br. Insects VI:2A 1-49:27
Source	Chambers, V.H.(1960) Entomologist's mon. Mag. 96 209-212:209

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