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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) » Selandriinae

Subfamily Selandriinae

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
Fly - Dolerus Dolerus sawfly - Dolerus nitens sawfly - Thrinax albidopicta - female ?? - Dolerus Sawfly - Dolerus Winged insect - Dolerus caterpillar - Dolerus Dolerus? - Dolerus
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 Selandriinae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Dolerinae was formerly treated as a separate subfamily.
Explanation of Names
Selandriinae Thomson 1871
Numbers
~30 spp. in 11 genera in our area, ~800 spp. in 72 genera worldwide(1)(2)(3)
Range
New World, Eurasia, Africa(2)
Food
hosts: ferns (most spp. in NA), sedges, grasses; one sp. on moss(2)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.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.
3.Blank et al. (2012) ECatSym: Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Program version 4.0 beta
Contributed by Martin Hauser on 8 April, 2007 - 3:29pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 17 October, 2020 - 6:23pm

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