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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 Siricinae

Genus Urocerus

Species flavicornis (Yellow-horned Horntail Wasp)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Urocerus gigas flavicornis

Explanation of Names

Urocerus flavicornis (Fabricius)

Size

10-40 mm (males smaller than females); larvae up to 30 mm

Identification

Females have the 1st, 6th, and part of the 7th abdominal segments yellow. Males have the 2nd - 5th orange-yellow.(1)

Range

all forested regions across Canada and the US(2) (LB-AK south to NH, NM & CA)(3)

Food

hosts include fir, larch, spruce, pine, and Douglas-fir(3)

Works Cited

1.	Eastern Forest Insects Whiteford L. Baker. 1972. U.S. Department of Agriculture · Forest Service.

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.

3.	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.

Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 8 July, 2012 - 6:43pm
Additional contributions by v belov, Marci Hess, PaleoJon
Last updated 4 September, 2023 - 2:23pm

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