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Arge Schrank

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Argidae; Subfamily: Arginae)

Arge Schrank 1802.

Arge species

Distribution

Worldwide, but most diverse in the tropics.

Biology

Phytophagous.

References

Koch, F. 2005. The sawflies of the BIOTA-Southern Africa Project with description of a new species of Arge (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin - Zoologische Reihe 81: 193-199.

Koch, F. & Goergen, G. 2008. Annotations to the Palaearctic sawfly genus Pseudarge Gussakovskij, 1935 gen. rev. with a contribution to the genus Arge Schrank, 1802 in the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae: Arginae). Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 98: 43-57.

Koch, F. & Goergen, G. 2010. Eight new species of Arge from South Africa and Namibia (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae). – Lambillionea 110 (1): 19-34.

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Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums).


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