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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Common Sawflies (Tenthredinidae) » Nematinae

Subfamily Nematinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Food · Works Cited

Columbine Sawfly larva, feeding - Pristiphora rufipes

Sawfly larvae on river birch - Nematus latitarsus

Gall on Salix sp. - possibly Pontania? - Euura

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 Tenthredinidae (Common Sawflies)

Subfamily Nematinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

= Susaninae Ross, 1951

Recent revision by Prous et al. (2014)(1) led to numerous names put in synonymy and the bulk of the subfamily (~80%) consolidated in just two speciose genera, Euura and Pristiphora, with no further subdivision offered.

Explanation of Names

Nematinae Thomson, 1871

Numbers

our largest subfamily, with >430 spp. in 14 genera in our area (incl. undescribed spp.);(2)(3)(1) globally the second largest subfamily, with >1250 spp. in 31 genera(4)

Cladiini

1. Cladius (1 sp.)

2. Priophorus (4 spp.)

3. Trichiocampus (3 spp.)

Dineurini

4. Dineura (1 sp.)

Hoplocampini

5. Hoplocampa (21 spp.)

Nematinae

6. Anoplonyx (4 spp.)

7. Caulocampus (2 spp.)

8. Craterocercus (6 spp.)

9. Euura (262 spp.)

10. Hemichroa (2 spp.)

11. Nematus (? spp. - updated count not yet reviewed)

12. Pristiphora (45 spp.)

Pseudodineurini

13. Kerita: 3 sp.

14. Pseudodineura: 3 sp.

Identification

Wing venation

Range

almost entirely restricted to Eurasia and North America(5)

Food

Most spp. are external leaf feeders; some form galls, mine leaves/petioles, or feed in developing fruit(3)

Works Cited

1.	The genera of Nematinae (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) Prous M, Blank SM, Goulet H, Heibo E, Liston A, Malm T, Nyman T, Schmidt S, Smith DR, Vårdal, H, Viitasaari M, Vikberg V, Taege. 2014. J. Hymenopt. Res. 40: 1–69.

2.	Nomina Insecta Nearctica Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.

3.	List of the Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of Virginia Smith D.R. 2006. Banisteria 28: 3‒23.

4.	Blank et al. (2012) ECatSym: Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Program version 4.0 beta

5.	The genera and subgenera of the sawflies of Canada and Alaska (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) Goulet H. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 20. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 235 pp.

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 8 April, 2007 - 3:26pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 17 September, 2024 - 12:38am

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