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Xyela minor

Species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ129177492 ↗
Source-derived summary

Xyela minor is a species of sawfly in the family Xyelidae. It is endemic to North America where it can be found from Quebec to Florida, and west to British Columbia and California. The larvae have widespread hosts, including: Pinus coulteri (Coulter pine), P. elliottii (slash pine), P. muricata (bishop pine), P. palustris (longleaf pine), P. ponderosa (ponderosa pine), P. sabiniana (gray pine), P. taeda (loblolly pine), and P. virginiana (Virginia pine).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Xyela minor” as species of insect. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 72-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Xyela, minor and Species can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as species of insect. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q129177492.

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This entry incorporates text from “Xyela minor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.