Common Name: Horntails; Wood wasps. Description: Horntails are relatively large insects. They have a long, cylindrical abdomen with a distinctive “spur” on the dorsal side of the last abdominal tergite. Most species are brown, blue, or black with yellow markings. Females lay eggs in maple, elm, beech, and other trees. The larvae are wood borers.

2024年8月3日 · Both sexes have an abdominal projection (horn). Females also have an ovipositor in a sheath. Color is useful in identification. forests of the Northern Hemisphere south to Cuba, n. Central America, India, New Guinea, and N.Africa (2 spp. known from tropical Africa) (3) larvae develop 1‒3 years (3); males emerge first and disperse.

Adults and larvae of Siricidae are often intercepted at ports and are of concern as potential alien invasive species. The family consists of 7 genera and 33 species in the New World: Eriotremex with one species, Sirex with 14 species, Sirotremex with one species, Teredon with one species, Tremex with two species, Urocerus with seven species ...

Family Anaxyelidae (cedar wood wasps) In United States represented by 1 California species; larvae eat wood of incense cedar. Family Siricidae (horntails) Usually 2.5 cm or more Read More

The Siricidae are a family of large, colorful, stingless wasps whose larvae bore into wood. They are members of the suborder Symphyta (sawflies, and horntails or woodwasps) of the insect order Hymenoptera (ants, wasps, and bees), and are characterized by having a broad waist and an ovipositor modified to insert eggs into wood.

Family: Siricidae Family common name: horntails and wood wasps Subfamilies: Auliscinae, Gigasiricinae, Siricinae, Tremicinae. Background. The family Siricidae is represented in North America by two subfamilies (Goulet 1992 Goulet 1992: Goulet H. 1992. The genera and subgenera of the sawflies of Canada and Alaska: Hymenoptera. Symphyta.

The family Siricidae, commonly known as horntails or wood wasps, includes a variety of large, robust wasp species that are known for their wood-boring larvae. These insects are often seen around dead or dying trees, where they lay their eggs.

The wood wasps or horntails are a group of about 105 non-social species of the family Siricidae, of the order Hymenoptera. They are a type of xylophagous sawfly. This family had been thought to be the only living representative of the superfamily Siricoidea, a group well-represented in early Tertiary and Mesozoic times, but another family ...

Horntail or wood wasp is the common name for any of the 150 non-social species of the family Siricidae, of the order Hymenoptera, a type of xylophagous sawfly. This family was formerly believed to be the sole living representative of the superfamily Siricoidea, a group well represented in Paleogene and Mesozoic times, but the family Anaxyelidae ...

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