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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Horntails (Siricidae) » Urocerus » Urocerus albicornis

Species Urocerus albicornis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps)
Family Siricidae (Horntails)
Genus Urocerus
Species albicornis (Urocerus albicornis)
Explanation of Names
Author: Fabricius
Identification
Female: large black wasps with uniformly brown wings. Two white spots on the head; antennae white except at the base and tips; femora and tibiae white at the base and black distally; wings brown.
Range
across NA (NF-BC south to NC-MO-CA)(1)
Food
hosts include fir, larch, spruce, pine, Douglas-fir, hemlock, and western red cedar(1)
Works Cited
1.Guide to the Siricid Woodwasps of North America
By N.M. Schiff, S.A. Valley, J.R. LaBonte, & D.R. Smith
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 31 January, 2008 - 5:51pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 16 September, 2010 - 10:07am

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