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

Family Pergidae - Pergid Sawflies

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Food · Works Cited
sawfly - Acordulecera dorsalis - female sawfly - Acordulecera dorsalis - female Nondescript Little Sawfly - Acordulecera Black-headed oakworms - Acordulecera Unknown Sawfly - Acordulecera Pergidae - Acordulecera Acordulecera kimseyi Smith? - Acordulecera - male small sawfly on wild geranium leaf - Acordulecera
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 Pergidae (Pergid Sawflies)
Explanation of Names
Pergidae Rohwer 1911
Numbers
~10 spp. in a single genus in our area(1); worldwide, the third largest symphytan family, with ~440 spp. in 60 genera(2)(3)
Range
Gondwanan distribution, with the majority of spp. in S. America and Australia (none in Africa) and feeble holarctic representation; almost 2/3 of the spp. are in the New World(2)
Food
food plant diversity exceeds that found in any other sawfly family(2)
Works Cited
1.Five new species of Acordulecera Say (Hymenoptera: Pergidae) from Arizona and California...
Smith D.R. 2010. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 112: 410-422.
2.Schmidt S., Smith D.R. (2016) Pergidae of the World
3.Blank et al. (2012) ECatSym: Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Program version 4.0 beta
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 8 October, 2008 - 6:01pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Arturo Santos
Last updated 21 August, 2023 - 3:34pm

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