Sirex

Genus of sawflies

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Sirex

Sirex noctilio
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Hymenoptera
Family:  | Siricidae
Genus:  | Sirex
Linnaeus, 1760
Species

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Sirex is a genus of wasps in the family Siricidae, the horntails or wood wasps. They inject eggs with fungal endosymbionts into wood. The fungus is contained in a mycangium which nourishes it with secretions, and in turn it digests wood for the wasp larva.

The genus includes economically important pests; S. noctilio, known simply as the 'Sirex woodwasp' is an invasive species, having spread widely across the world from its original range.[1][2]

## Species[edit]

* Sirex abietinus Goulet, 2012
* Sirex areolatus (Cresson, 1868)
* Sirex behrensii (Cresson, 1880)
* Sirex californicus (Ashmead, 1904)
* Sirex carinthiacus Konow, 1892
* Sirex cyaneus Fabricius, 1781
* Sirex ermak (Semenov, 1921)
* Sirex hispaniola Goulet, 2012
* Sirex juvencus (Linnaeus, 1758)
* Sirex longicauda Middlekauff, 1948
* Sirex mexicanus Smith, 2012
* Sirex mongolorum (Semenov)
* Sirex nigricornis Fabricius, 1781
* Sirex nitidus (Harris, 1841)
* Sirex nitobei Matsumura
* Sirex noctilio Fabricius, 1793
* Sirex obesus Bradley, 1913
* Sirex sinicus Maa
* Sirex tianshanicus (Semenov)
* Sirex torvus Harris, 1779
* Sirex varipes Walker, 1866
* Sirex vates Mocsáry
* Sirex xerophilus Schiff, 2012

## References[edit]

1. ^ Sirex Woodwasp – Sirex noctilio. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 2011.
2. ^ Hurley, B. P., et al. (2007). A comparison of control results for the alien invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, in the southern hemisphere. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 9(3), 159–71.

## Further reading[edit]

* Hajek, A. E., et al. (2013). Fidelity among Sirex woodwasps and their fungal symbionts. Microb. Ecol. 65(3) 753–62.

Taxon identifiers

Sirex|

* Wikidata: Q7530187
* Wikispecies: Sirex
* AFD: Sirex
* BOLD: 80528
* BugGuide: 458015
* CoL: 7HRY
* EoL: 73777
* EPPO: 1SIRXG
* Fauna Europaea: 164792
* Fauna Europaea (new): 6c3e7eb5-3fe4-454a-8c4b-eea6002d9ddf
* GBIF: 1358462
* iNaturalist: 202630
* IRMNG: 1350910
* ITIS: 152850
* NBN: NHMSYS0020482237
* NCBI: 36764
* NZOR: 041ef7fd-81f5-4a04-a573-d0118124e6ab
* Open Tree of Life: 783306
* Paleobiology Database: 139687

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