Sirex

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Sirex
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Sirex noctilio
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Siricidae
Genus: Sirex
Linnaeus, 1760
Species

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Sirex is a genus of wasps in the family Siricidae, the horntails or wood wasps. They inject eggs with fungal endosymbionts into wood. The fungus is contained in a mycangium which nourishes it with secretions, and in turn it digests wood for the wasp larva.

The genus includes economically important pests; S. noctilio, known simply as the 'Sirex woodwasp' is an invasive species, having spread widely across the world from its original range.[1][2]

Species[]

  • (Cresson, 1868)
  • Konow, 1892
  • Sirex cyaneus Fabricius, 1781
  • (Semenov, 1921)
  • Sirex juvencus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Sirex noctilio Fabricius, 1773

References[]

  1. ^ Sirex Woodwasp – Sirex noctilio. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 2011.
  2. ^ Hurley, B. P., et al. (2007). A comparison of control results for the alien invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, in the southern hemisphere. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 9(3), 159–71.

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