Sawflies from northern Ecuador and a checklist for the country (Hymenoptera: Argidae, Orussidae, Pergidae, Tenthredinidae, Xiphydriidae)

Sawflies of Ethiopia (Hymenoptera: Argidae, Tenthredinidae).

Sawflies were collected in Ethiopia during 2010-2013. Three species represent new records for the country: Arge deckerti Koch, 2005, Athalia excisa Koch, 2006 and Xenapates nigrifrons Koch, 2012. Arge flavifrons Mocsáry, 1909, syn. n. and A. transvaalensis Cameron, 1911, syn. n. are subjective synonyms of A. micheli (Buysson, 1900) that is re-described here. Athalia fumosa Gribodo, 1879 sp. rev...

Terrestrial arthropods of Steel Creek, Buffalo National River, Arkansas. II. Sawflies (Insecta: Hymenoptera: "Symphyta").

BACKGROUND This is the second in a series of papers detailing the terrestrial arthropods collected during an intensive survey of a site near Steel Creek campground along the Buffalo National River in Arkansas. The survey was conducted over a period of eight and a half months using twelve trap types - Malaise traps, canopy traps (upper and lower collector), Lindgren multifunnel traps (black, gre...

Phylogeny and ecological evolution of gall-inducing sawflies (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)

Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Sawflies, ‘Symphyta’

The superfamilies Cephoidea, Orussoidea, Pamphilioidea, Siricoidea, Tenthredinoidea, Xiphydrioidea and Xyeloidea are combined as one checklist section, as the sawflies represent a distinctive assemblage of phytophagous (except Orussidae) Hymenoptera. More than fifty years have passed since the publication of the final part of Robert B. Benson’s three part identification key to the “Symphyta” of...

Sawflies of the genus Emphytopsis (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) associated with Stewartia (Theaceae) in Japan.

Japanese species of the sawfly genus Emphytopsis Wei & Nie, 1998, are reviewed and the following four species are recognized and keyed: E. flatoserrula Wei, 2011, from Kyushu, E. nigromaculata (Takeuchi, 1952) from Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu, E. shinoharai Wei & Niu, 2011, from Honshu and Shikoku, and E. vernalis Shinohara, n. sp., from Honshu and Kyushu. Stewartia pseudocamellia Maxim. (Theace...