| Urocerus gigas | |
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| Female ovipositing | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Siricidae |
| Genus: | Urocerus |
| Species: | U. gigas |
| Binomial name | |
| Urocerus gigas | |
| Synonyms | |
Urocerus gigas, the giant woodwasp, banded horntail, or greater horntail, is a species of sawfly native to the Palearctic realm and North Africa. Adults are usually between 10 and 40 millimetres (1⁄2 and 1+1⁄2 inches) in length.[1]
Larva
- Urocerus gigas gigas
- Urocerus gigas taiganus
Urocerus gigas is a wood-boring insect that attacks softwoods of freshly felled logs/unhealthy trees. The species lives in discrete tunnels, frequently filled with hard-packed coarse fibrous frass, hard to dig out from tunnels. The tunnels are large, round and discrete, between 6 and 7 mm (1⁄4 and 9⁄32 in) in diameter.
Urocerus flavicornis was once considered a subspecies of gigas but is now known to be a separate species .
References
- ↑ "Giant Woodwasp- Urocerus gigas". Massnrc.org. 2008-02-25. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
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