TENTHREDINIDAE Latreille, 1802
(a family of sawflies)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
images
No of
ID refs
Male (Click to open)
Subfamily 12 subtaxa 35 images 8 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Subfamily 5 subtaxa 43 images 1 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Subfamily 11 subtaxa 54 images 7 ident. refs
Male (Click to open)
Subfamily 45 subtaxa 113 images 37 ident. refs
Male (Click to open)
Subfamily 11 subtaxa 92 images 2 ident. refs
Female (Click to open)
Subfamily 27 subtaxa 269 images 25 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyTENTHREDINIDAE (a family of sawflies)
SuperfamilyTENTHREDINOIDEA (a superfamily of sawflies)
SuborderSYMPHYTA (sawflies)
OrderHYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Benson, R.B. 1958 Hymenoptera: 2. Symphyta. Section (c) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol VI, Part 2(c), 252pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

Larvae/Leaf-miners

Anon. British Leafminers www.leafmines.co.uk/
György Csóka 2003 Levélaknák és Levélaknázók - Leaf Mines and Leaf Miners 192pp, Forest Research Institute, Budapest
Pitkin, B. Ellis, W.,Plant, C. & Edmunds, R. The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects www.ukflymines.co.uk
Robbins, R. 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands Benchmark Atlas Series, 1991? edition, 181pp, Warwickshire Museum Service

TENTHREDINIDAE (a family of sawflies) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for TENTHREDINIDAE (a family of sawflies)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 907 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for TENTHREDINIDAE (a family of sawflies)
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