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Sirex
Sirex is a genus of sawfly in the family Siricidae, the horntails or wood wasps. Their bodies are black with a dark blue or green metallic reflection with some species having reddish-brown portions.
They inject eggs with fungal endosymbionts into wood. The larvae of Sirex are unable to digest the wood on their own and rely on the fungus for nutrition, either eating the fungus or wood partially digested by the fungus. Female Sirex have a mycangium which is used to carry arthrospores of the fungus.
23 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Steely-blue Woodwasp
speciesSirex juvencus
European Woodwasp
speciesSirex noctilio
Areolate Woodwasp
speciesSirex areolatus
Sirex varipes
speciesSirex varipes
Sirex longicauda
speciesSirex longicauda
Sirex californicus
speciesSirex californicus
Sirex behrensii
speciesSirex behrensii
Sirex nigricornis
speciesSirex nigricornis
Sirex abietinus
speciesSirex abietinus
Sirex nitidus
speciesSirex nitidus
Blue Horntail
speciesSirex cyaneus
Grim Woodwasp
speciesSirex torvus
Sirex nitobei
speciesSirex nitobei
Sirex obesus
speciesSirex obesus
Sirex ermak
speciesSirex ermak
Sirex mexicanus
speciesSirex mexicanus
Sirex imperialis
speciesSirex imperialis
Sirex hispaniola
speciesSirex hispaniola
Sirex carinthiacus
speciesSirex carinthiacus
Sirex piceus
speciesSirex piceus
Sirex sinicus
speciesSirex sinicus
Sirex tianshanicus
speciesSirex tianshanicus
Sirex atricornis
speciesSirex atricornis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 202630.