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Argidae

Argid sawflies of Africa and Madagascar 

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

Classification

Arginae
  Athermantinae
  Sterictophorinae

Distribution

Worldwide, but most diverse in the tropics.

Biology

Phytophagous. Larvae feed on leaves of ferns, horsetails, gymnosperms and angiosperms, occasionally they feed on the pith of twigs or on catkins.

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.

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. 2006. A contribution to the sawfly fauna of the winter rainfall area of southern Africa: revision of the genus Triarge Forsius, 1931 with description of a new species of Pampsilota Konow, 1899 (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae: Arginae, Athermantinae). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin - Zoologische Reihe 82: 223-238.

Pasteels, J. 1949. Tenthredinidae (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinoidea). Exploration du Parc National Albert. Mission G.F. de Witte (1933-1935) 60: l-105.

Pasteels, J. 1950.

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

Pasteels, J. 1952.

Pasteels, J. 1953.

Pasteels, J. 1953. Prodromes d'une fauna des Tenthredinoidea (Hymenoptera) de l'Afrique noir. I. Argidae Mém. Soc. Entomologique de Belgique 26:1-128

Pasteels, J.  1955.  Contributions à l'etude de la faune entomologique du Ruanda-Urundi (Mission P. Basilewsky 1953).  Hymenoptera Argidae, Tenthredinidae et Gasteruptiidae.  Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge 40: 370-75.

Pasteels, J. 1963. Prodrome d'une faune des Tenthredinoidea de l'Afrique noire. IV. —2e supplement aux Argidae. Bull. Ann. Soc. R. Ent. Belgique 99: 540-560.

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