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Species Urocerus albicornis - White-horned Horntail Wasp

Urocerus albicornis - Female Horntail Wasp - Urocerus albicornis - female

Bug on cactus in greenhouse - Urocerus albicornis

White-horned Horntail Wasp - Urocerus albicornis - male - female

White-horned Horntail - Urocerus albicornis

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 Siricinae

Genus Urocerus

Species albicornis (White-horned Horntail Wasp)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Sirex latifasciata Westwood 1874

Explanation of Names

Urocerus albicornis (Fabricius 1781)

Size

25-30mm long(1)

Identification

Middle of the antennae, cheeks, bases of the tibia and tarsi are white. White spots also occur at times on the sides of the abdomen.(1)

Range

transcontinental: forested regions from southern boreal Canada south to CA-NM-MO-LA-NC(?GA)(2)

Food

hosts include fir, larch, spruce, pine, Douglas-fir, hemlock, and western red cedar(3)

Works Cited

1.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

2.	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.

3.	Guide to the siricid woodwasps of North America Schiff N.M., Valley S.A., LaBonte J.R., Smith D.R. 2006. USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team, Morgantown, WV. 101 pp.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 31 January, 2008 - 5:51pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Marci Hess, PaleoJon
Last updated 4 September, 2023 - 2:22pm

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