Tenthredinoidea

Tenthredinoidea
Temporal range: Cretaceous-Present
Tenthredo mesomela
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea
Latreille, 1803
Type genus
Tenthredo
Linnaeus, 1758
Families

Argidae Konow, 1890
Blasticotomidae Thomson, 1871
Cimbicidae W. Kirby, 1837
Diprionidae Rohwer, 1910
Electrotomidae Rasnitsyn, 1977
Pergidae Rohwer, 1911
Tenthredinidae Latreille, 1803
Xyelotomidae Rasnitsyn, 1968
Zenargidae Rohwer, 1918[1]

The Tenthredinoidea are the dominant superfamily of sawflies within the Symphyta, containing some 8,400 species worldwide, primarily in the family Tenthredinidae. All known larvae are phytophagous, and a number are considered pests.

The included extant families share the distinctive features of a medially narrowed pronotum, paired protibial spurs, and the loss of the transverse mesonotal groove. The superfamily also includes two extinct families.[2] Meicai and Haiyan (1998) identified 66 extant tribes and 17 subfamilies.[3]