Tenthredininae

Tenthredininae
Tenthredo notha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea
Family: Tenthredinidae
Subfamily: Tenthredininae
Type genus
Tenthredo
Tribes

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Tenthredininae are a subfamily of sawflies within the family Tenthredinidae, the largest sawfly family. It consists of about 50 genera, including the type genus Tenthredo. It also includes most of the larger and more colourful members of the family.[1] Some authorities divide these into tribes.[2][1] Distribution is Northern Hemisphere and holarctic.[3]

Taxonomy

Tribes
  • Perineurini
  • Sciapterygini
  • Tenthredopsini
  • Tenthredinini
  • Macrophyini

References

  1. 1 2 Smith 1979, Tenthredininae pp. 108–124
  2. ↑ Benson 1959.
  3. ↑ Smith 2003.

Bibliography

  • Benson, Robert B. (November 1959). "Tribes of the Tenthredininae and a new European genus (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)". Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B. 28 (9–10): 121–127. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1959.tb00147.x.
  • Smith, David R (March 2003). "A Synopsis of the Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of America South of the United States: Tenthredinidae (Nematinae, Heterarthrinae, Tenthredininae)". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 129 (1): 1–45. JSTOR 25078795.
  • Krombein, Karl V; Hurd, Paul V; Smith, David R; Burks, B D, eds. (1979). Catalog of hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Smith, David R. Symphyta, vol. i. pp. 1–137. , in Krombein et al (1979)


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