Tenthredinoidea
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Through Herbivore and Extinction
The included extant families share the distinctive features of a medially narrowed pronotum, paired protibial spurs, and the loss of the transverse mesonotal groove. The superfamily also includes two extinct families. Meicai and Haiyan (1998) identified 66 extant tribes and 17 subfamilies.
Taxonomy
Families
- Argidae Konow, 1890 (58 genera, 897 spp.)
- Blasticotomidae Thomson, 1871 (3 genera, 13 spp.)
- Cimbicidae W. Kirby, 1837 (16 genera, 182 spp.)
- Diprionidae Rohwer, 1910 (11 genera, 136 spp.)
- Pergidae Rohwer, 1911 (60 genera, 442 spp.)
- Tenthredinidae Latreille, 1803 (430 genera, 7,500 spp.)
- Zenargidae Rohwer, 1918 (1 genus, 1 sp.)
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Monotypic taxonTaxonomic group with only one subordinate taxonSpecies descriptionFormal description of a discovered speciesParaphylyType of taxonomic groupIUCN Red ListInventory of the global conservation status of biological speciesSubtropicsGeographic and climate zoneCommon nameName generally used for a taxon, group of taxa or organism(s)