Tenthredo

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Tenthredo
Tenthredo arcuata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Family: Tenthredinidae
Subfamily: Tenthredininae
Tribe: Tenthredinini
Genus: Tenthredo
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Tenthredo (from the Greek τενθρηδών tenthrēdōn "earth nesting wasp")[1] is a genus of sawflies with more than 700 species of the family Tenthredinidae, subfamily Tenthredininae. It is of Holarctic distribution.

Description

Species of this genus are easily recognisable by their wasplike appearance although lacking the thin 'waist' of a true wasp. They have long antennæ. The fore wings of these sawflies have a lance-shaped cell with a straight cross-nervure. Larvae feed on a very wide variety of plants, each species is often restricted to one host; adults prey on flies and other insects in flowers.

List of species

References

  1. ^ τενθρηδών. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
  2. ^ Goulet, H.; Bennett, A.M. (2021). "Checklist of the sawflies (Hymenoptera) of Canada, Alaska and Greenland". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 82: 21–67 – via NatureServe.