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

Genus Abia

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Life Cycle · Print References · Works Cited
What is this? does it sting or bite? - Abia Zaraea 01b - Abia americana portland Bioblitz 2012 PDX11 - Abia americana Abia sp.? - Abia Abia lonicerae? - Abia Unknown ? - Abia Smooth light-blue caterpillar - Abia americana Sawfly larva on Bittersweet (Celastris) - Abia
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 Cimbicidae (Cimbicid Sawflies)
Genus Abia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Abia Leach, 1817
=Procimbex Hong, 1983
=Aenoabia Kangas, 1946
=Zaraea Leach 1817
Numbers
5 spp. in our area.(1)(2)(3)
1. Abia aenea: eastern (NY south to MD, west to OH) — previously reported under the misidentification of A. lonicerae
2. Abia americana: transcontinental (QC west to AK, south to PA, NE, NM, & CA)
3. Abia fasciata: northeastern (s. ON, s. QC; ME, MI, VT)
4. Abia inflata: eastern to central (MA south to PA, west to NE, CO)
5. Abia kennicotti: eastern (IL, KS, MO, NY, TX)
Life Cycle
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Print References
Goulet, Henri; Smith, David R.; & Matson, Tanner A. (2022). Identity of the North American Adventive Abia Species (Hymenoptera: Cimbicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 124(2): 362–366. (Full text)
Works Cited
1.Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico
Karl V. Krombein, Paul D. Hurd, Jr., David R. Smith, and B. D. Burks. 1979. Smithsonian Institution Press.
2.Nomina Insecta Nearctica
Poole, Robert W. Nearctica.com, Inc.
3. Checklist of the sawflies (Hymenoptera) of Canada, Alaska and Greenland
Henri Goulet & Andrew M. R. Bennett. 2021. Journal of Hymenoptera Research: 82: 21-67.
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 10 June, 2006 - 8:43am
Additional contributions by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy, ceiseman, v belov, Robert H. Biagi, PaleoJon
Last updated 19 April, 2024 - 4:17am

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