Tenthredo

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Tenthredo
File:Tenthredinidae - Tenthredo arcuata-1.jpg
Tenthredo arcuata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Family: Tenthredinidae
Subfamily: Tenthredininae
Tribe: Tenthredinini
Genus: Tenthredo
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Tenthredo (from the Greek τενθρηδών tenthrēdōn "earth nesting wasp")[1] is a genus of sawflies with more than 700 species of the family Tenthredinidae, subfamily Tenthredininae. It is of Holarctic distribution.

Description

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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.

List of species

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References

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  1. ^ τενθρηδών. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
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