Siricoidea

The superfamily Siricoidea is an archaic group of the order Hymenoptera, consisting of six families (four extinct) of xylophagous sawflies. The group is well represented in early Tertiary and Mesozoic times, but a number of living taxa remain, including the family Anaxyelidae, which has recently been linked to this group (it was previously placed in the Xyeloidea). The female ovipositor is typically long and projects posteriorly, and is used to drill into wood.

Siricoidea
Temporal range: Cretaceous-Present
Giant horntail
(Urocerus gigas)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
(unranked): Unicalcarida
Superfamily: Siricoidea

Families

These six families belong to the superfamily Siricoidea:[1][2][3]

  • Siricidae (horntails)
  • Xiphydriidae (wood wasps, sometimes treated as a separate superfamily, Xiphydrioidea)
  • † Daohugoidae
  • † Protosiricidae
  • † Pseudosiricidae
  • † Sinosiricidae

References
  1. Aguiar, A.P.; Deans, A.R.; Engel, M.S.; Forshage, M.; et al. (2013). Zhang, Zhi-Qiang (ed.). "Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang Z-Q (ed) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classif. and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013)". Zootaxa. 3703 (1): 1–82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12. ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1. ISSN 1175-5326. PMID 26146682.
  2. "The Paleobiology Database, family Protosiricidae". Retrieved 2019-06-01.
  3. Taeger, A.; Liston, A.D.; Prous, M.; Groll, E.K.; et al. (2018). "ECatSym – Electronic World Catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera)". Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (SDEI), Müncheberg. Retrieved 2019-06-01.


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