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Genus Atomacera

Sawfly Larva? - Atomacera decepta? - Atomacera decepta

Argidae, dorsal - Atomacera debilis - female

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 Argidae (Argid Sawflies)

Genus Atomacera

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

revised in(1)

Explanation of Names

Atomacera Say 1836

Name refers to the unsegmented flagellum

Numbers

3 spp. in our area(1), 6 total(2)

Remarks

the sole member of the subfam. Atomacerinae

Works Cited

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

2.	Dicky Sick Ki Yu (1997-2015) Home of Ichneumonoidea (Taxapad)

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 27 June, 2004 - 6:35pm
Additional contributions by Vox Sciurorum, v belov
Last updated 29 May, 2014 - 3:13pm

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