Urocerus
Appearance
Urocerus | |
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Urocerus flavicornis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Siricidae |
Subfamily: | Siricinae |
Genus: | Urocerus Geoffroy, 1762 |
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Urocerus is a genus of horntails in the family Siricidae. There are about eight described species in Urocerus.[1][2][3]
Species
[edit]These species belong to the genus Urocerus:
- Urocerus albicornis (Fabricius, 1781) g b (white horned horntail)
- Urocerus californicus Norton, 1869 g b
- Urocerus cressoni Norton, 1864 g b (black and red horntail)
- Urocerus flavicornis Fabricius, 1781 g b (yellow-horned horntail wasp)
- Urocerus franzinii C.Pesarini & F.Pesarini, 1977 g
- Urocerus gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) b (giant woodwasp)
- Urocerus japonicus (Smith, 1874)[4] (Japanese horntail)
- Urocerus sah (Mocsáry, 1881) g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[5] c = Catalogue of Life,[6] g = GBIF,[1] b = Bugguide.net[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Urocerus". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ a b "Urocerus Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Urocerus Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Urocerus japonicus (Smith, 1874)". Taxon profile. BioLib. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ "ITIS, Integrated Taxonomic Information System". Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- ^ "Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2018-04-11.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, Ross H. Jr. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico (2nd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 0-8493-0212-9.
- Krombein, Karl V.; Hurd Jr., Paul D. Jr.; Smith, David R.; Burks, B.D., eds. (1979). "Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico". Smithsonian Institution Press. Retrieved 2018-04-11.
- Schiff, N.M.; Goulet, H.; Smith, D.R.; Boudreault, C.; et al. (2012). "Siricidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Siricoidea) of the Western Hemisphere". Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification (21).
External links
[edit]Media related to Urocerus at Wikimedia Commons