wheat sawfly

wheat sawfly (plural wheat sawflies)

1. A small European sawfly (Cephus pygmeus) whose larvae damage wheat by boring in the stalks.
2. Any of several small American sawflies of the genus Dolerus, whose larvae damage the stems or heads of wheat.
3. Pachynematus extensicornis, whose larvae feed chiefly on the blades of wheat.

• (Cephus pygmeus): wheat stem fly, wheat stem sawfly
• (Pachynematus extensicornis): grass sawfly

• “wheat sawfly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.