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Tenthredo
Sign in to saveTenthredo (from the Greek tenthrēdōn "earth nesting wasp") is a genus of sawflies with more than 700 species of the family Tenthredinidae, subfamily Tenthredininae. It is of Holarctic distribution.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderHymenoptera
- FamilyTenthredinidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,979
- With media
- 210
- Family
- Tenthredinidae
- Collections
- UAM, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, China
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- Parent taxon
- Tenthredininae
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- Tenthredinidae - Tenthredo arcuata-1.jpg
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- Tenthredo
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Tenthredo (from the Greek tenthrēdōn "earth nesting wasp") is a genus of sawflies with more than 700 species of the family Tenthredinidae, subfamily Tenthredininae. It is of Holarctic distribution.
==Description== Species of this genus are easily recognisable by their wasplike appearance although lacking the thin 'waist' of a true wasp. They have long antennæ. The fore wings of these sawflies have a lance-shaped cell with a straight cross-nervure. Larvae feed on a very wide variety of plants, each species is often restricted to one host; adults prey on flies and other insects in flowers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tenthredo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.