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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.
Type species: Tenthredo enodis Linnaeus, 1767, by subsequent
designation of Rohwer (1911).
Calarge Enslin, 1911. Type species: Calarge africana
Enslin, 1911, by original designation. Synonymy by Liston et
al 2017.
Hylotoma Latreille, 1803: 302. Type species: Tenthredo ochropus
Gmelin, 1790 [= Arge ochropus (Gmelin,
1790)], by subsequent designation of Blank et al. (2009).
Didocha Konow,
1907b: 306. Type species: Didocha braunsi Konow, 1907 [= Arge
hansi Forsius, 1930], by monotypy.
Alloscenia Enderlein; 1919: 115. Type species: Alloscenia
maculitarsis Enderlein, 1919 [= Arge massajae Gribodo, 1879], by
original designation.
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Photograph
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Arge acuticornis Pasteels, 1953
Arge aesculapii Forsius, 1923
Arge africana (Enslin, 1911)
Arge algoensis Enslin, 1911
Arge andromeda W.F. Kirby, 1882 |
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Arge angulifera Pasteels, 1953 |
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Arge bensoni Pasteels,
1953 |
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Arge bisignata Konow, 1907 |
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Arge capensis
(Klug, 1814) |
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Arge cochraneae Koch & Goergen,
2010 |
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Arge davidi Koch & Liston,
2012 |
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Arge deckerti
Koch, 2005 |
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Arge dirce
(W.F. Kirby, 1882) |
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Arge dorsalis Koch & Liston,
2012 |
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Arge elandsbayensis Koch & Goergen, 2010 |
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Arge fenestralis Forsius,
1927 |
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Arge furvipes Konow,
1907 |
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Arge
goellnerae Koch & Goergen, 2008 |
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Arge hereroensis Koch & Goergen,
2010 |
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Arge
infuscatipennis Forsius, 1927 |
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Arge intermedia Pasteels, 1963 |
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Arge iota Pasteels,
1953 |
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Arge krabbefonteinensis Koch & Goergen,
2010 |
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Arge kungveldensis
Koch & Eardley, 2011 |
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Arge langebergensis Koch & Goergen,
2010 |
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Arge leleupi Pasteels, 1953
Arge livida (Klug, 1834)
Arge maculata Pasteels, 1953
Arge maculipes Pasteels, 1953
Arge mareei Pasteels, 1953
Arge marlieri Pasteels, 1953 |
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Arge marshalli Forsius,
1927 |
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Arge massajae Gribodo, 1879 |
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Arge melanopyga Pasteels,
1953 |
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Arge meyi
Koch, 2006 |
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Arge micheli du Buysson, 1900 |
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Arge microps Pasteels, 1953 |
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Arge mirabilipes Pasteels, 1955 |
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Arge mirabilis Forsius,
1931 |
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Arge mixta Pasteels, 1953 |
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Arge mocsaryi Rohwer, 1920 |
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Arge montana Koch & Goergen,
2010 |
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Arge namaensis Koch & Goergen,
2010 |
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Arge neavei Forsius,
1927 |
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Arge posterior Pasteels, 1963 |
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Arge rufocyanea
(Enslin, 1911) |
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Arge sjoestedti Konow,
1907 |
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Arge speciosa
(Klug, 1834) |
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Arge spei (Enslin,
1911) |
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Arge stuhlmanni
(Kohl, 1893) |
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Arge swartbergensis Koch & Liston,
2012 |
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Arge
taitaensis
Koch & Eardley, 2011 |
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Arge taeniata
(Klug, 1834) |
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Arge ugandana Pasteels,
1953 |
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Arge urania
(Kirby, 1882) |
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Arge vannoorti
Koch & Liston, 2012 |
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Arge ventralis Koch & Liston,
2012 |
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Arge whiteheadi Koch & Goergen, 2010 |
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Arge
species |
Distribution
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Worldwide, but most diverse in the tropics. |
Biology |
Phytophagous. |

Sawfly larvae
of Arge dirce feeding on their host-plant. Photograph
© Mike Picker &
Charles Griffiths. |
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Credits
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Photographs of pinned specimens © Frank Koch (Museum
für Naturkunde, Berlin) or
© Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg
Deutsches Entomologisches Institut) or © Georg Goergen (International
Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin); photographs of living adult and larvae © Mike
Picker & Charles Griffiths (published in Struik's
Field Guide to Insects of South Africa).
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