Tenthredinoidea
Temporal range: Cretaceous-Present
Tenthredo mesomela
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea
Latreille, 1803
Type genus
Tenthredo
Linnaeus, 1758
Families

Argidae Konow, 1890
Blasticotomidae Thomson, 1871
Cimbicidae W. Kirby, 1837
Diprionidae Rohwer, 1910
† Electrotomidae Rasnitsyn, 1977
Pergidae Rohwer, 1911
Tenthredinidae Latreille, 1803
† Xyelotomidae Rasnitsyn, 1968
Zenargidae Rohwer, 1918[1]

The Tenthredinoidea are the dominant superfamily of sawflies within the Symphyta, containing some 8,400 species worldwide, primarily in the family Tenthredinidae. All known larvae are phytophagous, and a number are considered pests.

The included extant families share the distinctive features of a medially narrowed pronotum, paired protibial spurs, and the loss of the transverse mesonotal groove. The superfamily also includes two extinct families.[2] Meicai and Haiyan (1998) identified 66 extant tribes and 17 subfamilies.[3]

Taxonomy

Families

References

  1. ^ a b Malagón-Aldana et al 2021.
  2. ^ Aguiar et al 2013.
  3. ^ Meicai & Haiyan 1998.

Bibliography

  • Aguiar, Alexandre P.; Deans, Andrew R.; Engel, Michael S.; Forshage, Mattias; Huber, John T.; Jennings, John T.; Johnson, Norman F.; Lelej, Arkady S.; Longino, John T.; Lohrmann, Volker; Mikó, István; Ohl, Michael; Rasmussen, Claus; Taeger, Andreas; Yu, Dicky Sick Ki (30 August 2013). "Order Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 51–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12. PMID 26146682., in Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)
  • Liston, Andrew; Knight, Guy; Sheppard, David; Broad, Gavin; Livermore, Laurence (29 August 2014). "Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Sawflies, 'Symphyta'". Biodiversity Data Journal. 2 (2): e1168. doi:10.3897/BDJ.2.e1168. PMC 4152835. PMID 25197241.
  • Malagón-Aldana, L.A.; Smith, D.R.; Shinohara, A.; Vilhelmsen, L. (2021). "From Arge to Zenarge: adult morphology and phylogenetics of argid sawflies (Hymenoptera: Argidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (3): 880–938. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa170. (Erratum: doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab028)
  • Meicai, Wei; Haiyan, Nie (1998). "Generic list of Tenthredinoidea s. str. (Hymenoptera) in new systematic arrangement with synonyms and distribution data". Journal of Central-South Forestry College (in Chinese). 18 (3): 23–31. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
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