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    Argidae

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    Short description: Family of sawflies

    Argidae
    Arge humeralis
    Scientific classification e
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Insecta
    Order: Hymenoptera
    Suborder: Symphyta
    Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea
    Family: Argidae
    Konow, 1890
    Subfamilies[1]

    Arginae
    Sterictiphorinae

    Argidae is a large family of sawflies, containing some 800 species worldwide, primarily in tropical regions. The larvae are phytophagous, and commonly can be found feeding (and often pupating) in groups, though very few attain pest status.

    Large rose sawfly, a horticultural pest

    The family is distinguished from all other Symphyta by the reduction of the antenna to three segments, flagellomeres; the last one is elongated often shaped like a tuning fork in males.

    References

    1. 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)

    Wikidata ☰ Q1021710 entry




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