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Afrotropical Cephoidea

Stem Sawflies

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

Classification

Cephidae

Distribution

Widespread in Northern Hemisphere with 2 species known from Madagascar.

Diversity

About 100 species.

Biology

Phytophagous. Larvae feed inside grass stems or twigs of woody plants. Some species are major pests of cultivated cereals such as wheat (Cephus cinctus) (Goulet, 1993).

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Benson, R. B. 1935. On the genera of Cephidae, and the erection of a new family Syntexidae (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology. Tenth Series, London 16: 535-553.

Benson R.B. 1946. Classification of the Cephidae. Transactions of the RoyalEntomological Society of London 96 (6): 89-108.

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Magis N. & Pauly A. 2001. Captures récentes du Cephide Athetocephalus maculatus Benson, 1935 (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Notes Fauniques de Gembloux 44: 112.

Goulet, H. 1993. Superfamilies Cephoidea, Megalodontoidea, Orussoidea, Siricoidea, Tenthredinoidea and Xyeloidea (pp. 101-129). In GOULET, H. & HUBER, J. (eds). Hymenoptera of the World: an identification guide to families. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 668 pp.

Muche, W. H. 1981. Die Cephidae der Erde (Hym., Cephidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Neue Folge, Berlin 28(4-5): 239-295.

Peters RS, Krogmann L, Mayer C, Donath A, Gunkel S, Meusemann K, Kozlov A, Podsiadlowski L, Petersen M, Lanfear R, Diez PA. 2017. Evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera. Current Biology 27:1013-1018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.027

Quinlan, J. 1974. The nominal taxa described by R. B. Benson and their types, with a bibliography of his works (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology series, London 30(4): 217-265.

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Taeger, A. & Blank, S.M. 2011. ECatSym – electronic world catalog of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Program version 3.10, data version 38 (07.12.2011) Digital Entomological Information, Müncheberg.

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