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Family Argidae - Argid Sawflies


North American sawfly larvae of the family Argidae (Hymenoptera)
By Smith D.R.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 98: 163-184, 1972

Key to genera of Nearctic Argidae (Hymenoptera) with revisions of the genera Atomacera Say and Sterictiphora Billberg
By Smith D.R.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 95: 439-457, 1969

Systematics of two feeding morphs of Schizocerella pilicornis (Hymenoptera: Argidae) and recognition of two species
By Hartsough C.D.B., Connor E.F., Smith D.R., Spicer G.S.
Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 100: 375-380, 2007

Nearctic sawflies of the genera Neoptilia Ashmead, Schizocerella Forsius, Aprosthema Konow, and Sphacophilus Provancher...
By Smith D.R.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 97: 537-594
Full title: Nearctic sawflies of the genera Neoptilia Ashmead, Schizocerella Forsius, Aprosthema Konow, and Sphacophilus Provancher (Hymenoptera: Argidae)

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The sawfly genus Arge (Hymenoptera: Argidae) in the Western Hemisphere
By Smith D.R.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 115: 83‒205, 1989

Checklist of the sawflies (Hymenoptera) of Canada, Alaska and Greenland
By Henri Goulet & Andrew M. R. Bennett
Journal of Hymenoptera Research: 82: 21-67, 2021

Sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) newly recorded from Washington State
By Chris Looney, David R. Smith, Sharon J. Collman, David W. Langor, Merrill A. Peterson
Chris Looney et al. / Journal of Hymenoptera Research 49: 129–159 (2016)

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List of species:
Xiphydria prolongata, Neodiprion sertifer, Diprion similis, Gilpinia hercyniae, Cladius grandis, Cladius gregarius, Pristiphora geniculata, Pristiphora rufipes, Craesus alniastri, Nematus lipovskyi, Heterarthrus nemoratus, Heterarthrus vagans, Metallus lanceolatus, Fenusella nana, Profenusa thomsoni, Profenusa inspirata, Fenusa ulmi, Halidamia affinis, Monophadnus pallescens, Eupareophora parca, Monostegia abdominalis, Macrophya punctumalbum

List of the Sawflies (Hymenoptera: Symphyta) of Virginia
By Smith D.R.
Banisteria 28: 3‒23, 2006