Siricidae

• Subfamily SIRICINAE (Introduced)

  • Genus Sirex Linnaeus, 1761

    • Sirex noctilio Fabricius, 1793 (South Africa - introduced)

• Subfamily TREMECINAE

  • Genus Afrotremex Pasteels, 1951

    • Afrotremex comatus Goulet, 2014 (Uganda)

    • Afrotremax hyalinatus (Mocsáry, 1891) (Congo; Gabon)

    • Afrotremex opacus Goulet, 2014 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Afrotremex pallipennis Goulet, 2014 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Afrotremax violaceus Pasteels, 1951 (Democratic Republic of Congo)

    • Afrotremex xylophagus Goulet, 2014 (Cameroon, Ghana)

References

Goulet, H. 1993. Superfamilies Cephoidea, Megalodontoidea, Orussoidea, Siricoidea, Tenthredinoidea and Xyeloidea (pp. 101-129). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Goulet G. 2014. Revision of the African horntail genus Afrotremex (Hymenoptera: Siricidae). Zootaxa 3795: 201–254. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3795.3.1

Pasteels, J. 1951. Sur quelques Tenthrediniodea africains. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 87: 195-205.

Schiff, N. M., Goulet, H., Smith, D. R., Boudreault, C., Wilson, A. D., and Scheffler, B. E. 2012. Siricidae (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Siricoidea) of the Western Hemisphere. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 21: 305 pp. doi: 10.3752/cjai.2012.21

van Noort S & Goulet H. 2015. New distribution records for the rare genus Afrotremex Pasteels (Siricidae: Hymenoptera) and provision of interactive Lucid identification keys to species. Biodiversity Data Journal : 1-11 e7160. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e7160