World Catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera)

Abstract

The first complete World Catalog of sawflies (Hymenoptera, suborder Symphyta) for over 100 years is presented. It contains references to the original descriptions and provides brief distributional data for 803 genera, 8353 species (123 with two or more subspecies) and 161 subspecies in addition to the nominal subspecies. 15245 proposed names are treated, including replacement names, infrasubspecific names and nomina nuda, of which only 22 could not be checked in the original publications. Current taxonomic placement of genera and species and occurrence in zoogeographic regions are indicated. The list of names contains 31245 name combinations, variant spellings and family-group names. The authors attempted to consult all publications with taxonomic content referring to Symphyta that have appeared up to 31.12.2009. The 2960 cited references include all those that are known to contain original descriptions of taxa. Short biographical data and portraits of 168 symphytologists as well as images of representatives of extant sawfly taxa are included.

Two nearly complete mitogenomes of wheat stem borers, Cephus pygmeus (L.) and Cephus sareptanus Dovnar-Zapolskij (Hymenoptera: Cephidae): An unusual elongation of rrnS gene

“…Increasing knowledge on the mitogenomes of phytophagous species will provide further insight into our understanding of their higher level phylogeny and their life histories. The Cephidae is a relatively small family of sawflies including approximately 165 species worldwide mostly with Holarctic distributions (Taeger et al, 2010). It has long attracted attention because of its possession of a few apocritan-like characters and was suggested to be a likely sister group of whole Apocrita (Königsmann, 1977) and even some modern analyses of molecular datasets have provided evidence for a such relationship (Klopfstein et al, 2013).…”

Arge xanthogaster(Hymenoptera: Argidae): A New Threat to Rose Plants in Meghalaya, India

“…Arge Schrank is a large genus of Argidae with over 300 recognized world species (Taeger et al 2010). A number of species of Arge are associated with roses e.g., A. ochropus (Gmelin 1790), A. pagana (Panzer, 1798), A. nigrinodosa Motschulsky (Kawasaki et al 2012), A. simlaensis (Cameron) (Mahmood & Ullah 2011), A. geei Rohwer (Jiansheng et al 1996, A. przhevalskii Gussakovskij (Ying & Yuan 1992) and A. fumipennis (F. Smith) (Chauhan et al 2002).…”

Defense by Volatiles in Leaf-Mining Insect Larvae

“…Pseudodineurini is a small tribe that comprises about 15 described Holarctic species (Taeger and Blank 2008). A dozen belong to the genus Pseudodineura, and larvae are known for seven Western Palaearctic species.…”