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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Horntails (Siricidae)

Family Siricidae - Horntails

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Cascades Wasp - Xeris spectrum - female what in the world is this? - Tremex columba Seen in Zion NP, Utah October 2006. Bug is about 2 Oregon Horntail - Urocerus gigas - female Urocerus albicornis What is this? - Urocerus gigas Pigeon horntail - Tremex columba Green Faced Wasp
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps)
Family Siricidae (Horntails)
Numbers
Nearctica lists 18 species in 5 genera.
Internet References
Cornell U. Horntails.
University of Florida
Wikipedia
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 12:32pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset
Last updated 22 January, 2008 - 7:30am

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