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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) » Allantinae » Allantini » Allantus

Genus Allantus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Works Cited
Allantus nigritibialis Allantus nigritibialis Tenthredinidae, Allantinae Allantus viennensis (Schrank), - Allantus viennensis - female Curled Rose Sawfly larva - Allantus Nearctic Sawfly (Allantus) on a Multiflora Rose - Allantus Sawfly ID please…. Allantus mellipes perhaps?? - Allantus cinctus - female Sawfly Larva - Allantus larva, green with orange head and white feet, on rose bush - Allantus
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 Allantinae
Tribe Allantini
Genus Allantus
Explanation of Names
Allantus Panzer, 1801
Numbers
8 spp. in our area,(1)(2) ~150 total
1. Allantus albolabris: western (AB, BC; AK, CA, OR, WA)
2. Allantus basalis: eastern (NF, NS; MI, NH, NY, TN)
3. Allantus cinctus: eastern (NB, NF, ON, QC; CT, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WI) and northwestern (BC; WA)
4. Allantus mellipes: eastern (AB, MB, NB, NS, NT, ON, QC, SK; CO, CT, FL, IL, MA, ME, MI, MN, ND, NH, NY, PA, VA, VT)
5. Allantus nigritibialis: eastern (NJ, VA)
6. Allantus platycerus
6. Allantus rahmus: NT; AK
7. Allantus umbonatus: transcontinental northern (AB, BC, MB, ON, QC, SK; MI)
8. Allantus viennensis: northeastern (MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA; ON, QC)
Identification
Key to species (minus A. platycerus) by Smith (1979).(1)
Works Cited
1.Nearctic sawflies. IV. Allantinae: Adults and larvae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
Smith D.R. 1979. Agricultural Research Service, USDA Technical Bulletin No. 1595. 172 pp.
2.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
Contributed by Joel Kits on 12 April, 2005 - 10:53pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 21 December, 2024 - 7:54am

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