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Species Urocerus californicus - California Horntail Wasp

Spawn of Satan insect - Urocerus californicus

Stuck on this one - Urocerus californicus - male

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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 californicus (California Horntail Wasp)

Identification

♂

♀

Range

w. NA (MT-NM to BC & CA)(1)

Food

hosts include fir, larch, incense cedar, spruce, Douglas-fir, and hemlock(1)

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.

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 16 November, 2006 - 6:22pm
Additional contributions by v belov, PaleoJon
Last updated 7 July, 2021 - 11:22pm

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