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''Urocerus'' is a genus of
horntail Horntail or wood wasp are any of the 150 non-social species of the hymenopteran family Siricidae, a type of wood-eating sawfly. The common name "horntail" derives from the stout, spine-like structure at the end of the adult's abdomen, which is u ...
s in the family Siricidae. There are about eight described species in ''Urocerus''.


Species

These species belong to the genus ''Urocerus'': * '' Urocerus albicornis'' ( Fabricius, 1781) g b (white horned horntail) * '' Urocerus californicus'' Norton, 1869 g b * '' Urocerus cressoni'' Norton, 1864 g b (black and red horntail) * '' Urocerus flavicornis'' Fabricius, 1781 g b (yellow-horned horntail wasp) * '' Urocerus franzinii'' C.Pesarini & F.Pesarini, 1977 g * ''
Urocerus gigas ''Urocerus gigas'' (giant woodwasp, banded horntail, greater horntail) is a species of sawfly native to the Palearctic realm and North Africa. Adults are usually between in length. Subspecies: *''U. gigas gigas'' *''U. gigas taiganus'' ''U. ...
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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
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1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
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b (giant woodwasp) * '' Urocerus japonicus'' (Smith, 1874) (Japanese horntail) * '' Urocerus sah'' ( Mocsáry, 1881) g Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net


References


Further reading

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External links

* Siricidae {{hymenoptera-stub