Cimbicidae is a family of sawflies in the order

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

. There are more than 20 genera and 200 described species in Cimbicidae. Larvae are solitary

herbivore A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet. As a result of their plant diet, herbivorous animals typically have mouthpart ...

s. The family is distinctive in having antennae with prominent apical clubs or knobs. The adults of some species can exceed 3 cm in length, and are among the heaviest of all

Genera

These genera belong to the family Cimbicidae: * '' Abia'' Leach, 1817 * ''Agenocimbex'' Rohwer, 1910 * ''Allabia'' Semenov & Gussakorskii, 1937 * ''Brasilabia'' Conde, 1937 * ''Cimbex'' Olivier, 1791 * ''Corynis'' Thunberg, 1789 * ''Leptocimbex'' Semenov, 1896 * ''Lopesiana'' Smith, 1988 * ''Odontocimbex'' Malaise, 1935 * ''Pachylosticta'' Klug, 1824 * ''Praia (sawfly), Praia'' Wankowicz, 1880 * ''Pseudabia'' Schrottky, 1910 * ''Pseudocimbex'' Rohwer, 1908 * ''Pseudoclavellaria'' Schulz, 1906 * ''Pseudopachylosticta'' Mallach, 1929 * ''Trichiosoma'' Leach, 1817 * † ''Cenocimbex'' Nel, 2004 * † ''Eopachylosticta'' Malaise, 1945 * † ''Phenacoperga'' Cockerell, 1908 * † ''Sinocimbex'' Zhang Junfeng, Sun Bo & Zhang Xiyu, 1994 * † ''Trichiosomites'' Brues, 1908

References

External links

* Tenthredinoidea Sawfly families Cimbicidae, {{sawfly-stub