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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Horntail Wasps (Siricidae) » Tremecinae » Xeris

Genus Xeris

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Hymenoptera-Xeris ? - Xeris Xeris morrisoni female, dorsal - Xeris morrisoni - female Xeris morrisoni female, lateral - Xeris morrisoni - female Xeris morrisoni female, lateral head - Xeris morrisoni - female Horntail - Xeris - female long tail - Xeris Xeris sp? Siricidae - Xeris - female long-tailed insect - Xeris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon ("Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps)
Family Siricidae (Horntail Wasps)
Subfamily Tremecinae
Genus Xeris
Numbers
6 native spp. in our area; 10 spp. worldwide; X. indecisus (formerly X. spectrum) is often intercepted in NA but not established(1)
1. Xeris caudatus
2. Xeris chiricahua
3. Xeris indecisus (adventive)
4. Xeris melancholicus
5. Xeris morrisoni
6. Xeris tarsalis
Range
Holarctic; in our area, X. melancholicus is northern transcontinental, the rest are western(1)
Food
various Pinaceae(1)
Works Cited
1.Siricidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Siricoidea) of the Western Hemisphere
Schiff, N.M., Goulet, H., Smith, D.R., Boudreault, C., Wilson, A.D., and Scheffler, B.E. 2012. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification No. 21: 305 pp.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 19 January, 2006 - 5:08pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 15 April, 2022 - 6:43am

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