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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » "Symphyta" - Sawflies, Horntails, and Wood Wasps » Horntail Wasps (Siricidae) » Tremecinae » Eriotremex » Asian Horntail Wasp (Eriotremex formosanus)

Species Eriotremex formosanus - Asian Horntail Wasp

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
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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 Tremecinae
Genus Eriotremex
Species formosanus (Asian Horntail Wasp)
Other Common Names
Asian horntail sawfly
Asian horntail woodwasp
Asian horntail wood wasp
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Eriotremex formosanus (Matsumura)
Orig. Comb: Tremex formosanus Matsumura 1912
Identification
Antennae short, blunt, black; abdomen with long yellow hairs on dorsum (1)
Range
TX-FL-VA, mostly close to the coast (+ UT & AR records) (1)(2),(Warriner 2008)
native to SE Asia, adventive in our area
Food
hardwoods (oak, hickory, sweetgum, probably others) (1); attacks mostly dead/dying wood, so not a serious pest
Remarks
introduced accidentally with wood (crates, etc.); first reported in 1975 (Warriner 2008)
Print References
Warriner, M.D. 2008. First record of the Asian horntail Eriotremex formosanus (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) in Arkansas, U.S.A. Entomological News 119: 212-213. Full PDF
Works Cited
1.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.
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.
Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 8 November, 2005 - 2:21pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 21 June, 2021 - 8:28am

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