
''Urocerus'' is a genus of
horntail
Horntails or wood wasps are any of the 150 non-social species of the hymenopteran family Siricidae, a type of xylophagous, wood-eating sawfly. The common name "horntail" derives from the stout, spine-like structure at the end of the adult's abdom ...
s in the family
Siricidae
Horntails or wood wasps are any of the 150 non-social species of the hymenopteran family Siricidae, a type of wood-eating sawfly. The common name "horntail" derives from the stout, spine-like structure at the end of the adult's abdomen which is ...
. There are about eight described species in ''Urocerus''.
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Species
These species belong to the genus ''Urocerus'':
* '' Urocerus albicornis'' ( Fabricius, 1781) g b (white horned horntail)
* '' Urocerus californicus'' Norton, 1869 g b
* '' Urocerus cressoni'' Norton, 1864 g b (black and red horntail)
* '' Urocerus flavicornis'' Fabricius, 1781 g b (yellow-horned horntail wasp)
* ''Urocerus franzinii
''Urocerus'' is a genus of horntails in the family Siricidae. There are about eight described species in ''Urocerus''.
Species
These species belong to the genus ''Urocerus'':
* '' Urocerus albicornis'' ( Fabricius, 1781) (white horned horntail)
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'' C.Pesarini & F.Pesarini, 1977 g
* ''Urocerus gigas
''Urocerus gigas'', the giant woodwasp, banded horntail, or greater horntail, is a species of sawfly native to the Palearctic realm and North Africa but also reside in North America and Kelty since 2004. Though they are not wasps, their appearanc ...
'' (Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
) b (giant woodwasp)
* '' Urocerus japonicus'' (Smith, 1874) (Japanese horntail)
* ''Urocerus sah
''Urocerus'' is a genus of horntails in the family Siricidae. There are about eight described species in ''Urocerus''.
Species
These species belong to the genus ''Urocerus'':
* '' Urocerus albicornis'' ( Fabricius, 1781) (white horned horntail)
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'' ( Mocsáry, 1881) g
Data sources: i = ITIS,[ c = Catalogue of Life,][ g = GBIF,][ b = Bugguide.net]
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Siricidae
Sawfly genera
Taxa named by Étienne Louis Geoffroy
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