Siricidae

Urocerus gigas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Siricoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Symphyta Superfamilia: Siricoidea

Familia: Siricidae
Subfamiliae: Siricinae – Tremicinae – †Aulicinae – †Cratosiricinae – †Gigasiricinae
Subfamilia incertae sedis: †Cretosirex

Overview of genera

Afrotremex – Eriotremex – Sirex – Siricosoma – Sirotremex – Teredon – Tremex – Urocerus – Xeris – Xoanon – †Aulisca – †Cratosirex – †Cretosirex – †Emanrisca – †Eoteredon – †Eourocerus – †Eoxeris – †Gigasirex – †Liasirex – †Megaulisca – †Megura – †Pararchexyela – †Proximoxeris – †Ypresiosirex

Name

Siricidae Billberg, 1820

Synonymy

• Siricides Billberg, 1820: 98

References

Primary references

• Billberg, G.J. 1820. Enumeratio insectorum in museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. Stockholm, 138 pp. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Archibald, S.B., Aase, A. & Nel, A. 2021. The second North American fossil horntail wood-wasp (Hymenoptera: Siricidae), from the early Eocene Green River Formation. Zootaxa 4999(4): 325–334. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.4.2 . Reference page. 
• Archibald, S.B. & Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2015. New early Eocene Siricomorpha (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Pamphiliidae, Siricidae, Cephidae) from the Okanagan Highlands, western North America. The Canadian Entomologist 148(2): 209–228. DOI: 10.4039/tce.2015.55 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Archibald, S.B. & Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2022. The early Eocene Eourocerus anguliterreus gen. et sp. nov (Hymenoptera, Siricidae) from Republic, Washington. Zootaxa 5105(2): 289–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5105.2.8 . Reference page. 
• Jouault, C., Pouillon, J.-M. & Nel, A. 2020. The first fossil horntail wasp (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) from Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation in Brazil. Palaeoentomology 3(4): 382–389. DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.4.10 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Rasnitsyn, A.P. & Zhang, H. 2004. Composition and age of the Daohugou hymenopteran (Insecta, Hymenoptera = Vespida) assemblage from Inner Mongolia, China. Palaeontology 47(6): 1507–1517. DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00416.x . Reference page. 
• Schiff, N.M. et al. 2006: Guide to the Siricid woodwasps of North America. USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, West Virginia.
• Schiff, N.M., Goulet, H., Smith, D.R., Boudreault, C., Wilson, A.D. & Scheffler, B.E. 2012. Siricidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Siricoidea) of the Western Hemisphere. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 21: 1–305. DOI: 10.3752/cjai.2012.21 . Reference page. 
• Taeger, A., Blank, S.M. & Liston, A.D. 2010. World catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa 2580: 1–1064. Preview (PDF). DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2580.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Wang, M., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Han, G. & Ren, D. 2018. A new genus and species of basal horntail (Hymenoptera, Siricidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Cretaceous Research 91: 195–201. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.06.006 . Reference page.