Overview
The Diprionidae are a small family of conifer-feeding sawflies (thus the common name conifer sawflies, though other Symphyta feed on conifers) restricted to the Northern Hemisphere, with some 90 species in 11 genera worldwide. Larvae are often gregarious, and sometimes there can be major outbreaks, thus these wasps can be major forest pests at times.
The family is distinctive in having antennae with about 20 flagellomeres, and serrate or pectinate.
- Neodiprion spp. on the UF / IFAS Featured Creatures Web site
Taxonomy
The Family Diprionidae is a member of the Superfamily Tenthredinoidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Diprionidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Superorder: Hymenopterida
- Order: Hymenoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Ants, Bees, and Wasps
- Suborder: Symphyta
- a genus of Ichneumon Wasps (Ichneumonidae)
- Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea
- Family: Diprionidae - conifer sawflies
- Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea
- Suborder: Symphyta
- a genus of Ichneumon Wasps (Ichneumonidae)
- Order: Hymenoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Ants, Bees, and Wasps
- Superorder: Hymenopterida
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Diprionidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (2): Diprioninae · Monocteninae
- Genus (10): Diprion · Gilpinia · Lophyrus · Macrodiprion · Microdiprion · Monoctenus · Neodiprion · Nesodiprion · Zadiprion · Zaprionus
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 151 species and subspecies in the Family Diprionidae.
Genera
Diprion
Gilpinia
Lophyrus
Macrodiprion
Microdiprion
Monoctenus
Neodiprion
Nesodiprion
Zadiprion
Zaprionus
At least 65 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zaprionus.
More info about the Genus Zaprionus may be found here.
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