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Arge Schrank

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Tenthredinoidea; Family: Argidae; Subfamily: Arginae)

Arge Schrank, 1802. Type species: Tenthredo enodis Linnaeus, 1767, by subsequent designation of Rohwer (1911).
Calarge Enslin, 1911. Type species: Calarge africana Enslin, 1911, by original designation. Synonymy by Liston et al 2017.

Hylotoma Latreille, 1803: 302. Type species: Tenthredo ochropus Gmelin, 1790 [= Arge ochropus (Gmelin, 1790)], by subsequent designation of Blank et al. (2009).

Didocha Konow, 1907b: 306. Type species: Didocha braunsi Konow, 1907 [= Arge hansi Forsius, 1930], by monotypy.

Alloscenia Enderlein; 1919: 115. Type species: Alloscenia maculitarsis Enderlein, 1919 [= Arge massajae Gribodo, 1879], by original designation.

Classification

Arge_Picker&Griffiths

Photograph © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths

 

Arge acuticornis Pasteels, 1953

Arge aesculapii Forsius, 1923

Arge africana (Enslin, 1911)

Arge algoensis Enslin, 1911

Arge andromeda W.F. Kirby, 1882

Arge angulifera Pasteels, 1953
Arge bensoni Pasteels, 1953
Arge bisignata Konow, 1907
Arge capensis (Klug, 1814)
Arge cochraneae Koch & Goergen, 2010
  Arge davidi Koch & Liston, 2012
Arge deckerti Koch, 2005
Arge dirce (W.F. Kirby, 1882)
  Arge dorsalis Koch & Liston, 2012
Arge elandsbayensis Koch & Goergen, 2010
Arge fenestralis Forsius, 1927
Arge furvipes Konow, 1907
  Arge goellnerae Koch & Goergen, 2008
Arge hereroensis Koch & Goergen, 2010
Arge infuscatipennis Forsius, 1927
Arge intermedia Pasteels, 1963
Arge iota Pasteels, 1953
Arge krabbefonteinensis Koch & Goergen, 2010

Arge kungveldensis Koch & Eardley, 2011

Arge langebergensis Koch & Goergen, 2010
 

Arge leleupi Pasteels, 1953

Arge livida (Klug, 1834)

Arge maculata Pasteels, 1953

Arge maculipes Pasteels, 1953

Arge mareei Pasteels, 1953

Arge marlieri Pasteels, 1953

Arge marshalli Forsius, 1927
Arge massajae Gribodo, 1879
Arge melanopyga Pasteels, 1953
Arge meyi Koch, 2006
 

Arge micheli du Buysson, 1900

 

Arge microps Pasteels, 1953

Arge mirabilipes Pasteels, 1955
Arge mirabilis Forsius, 1931
 

Arge mixta Pasteels, 1953

 

Arge mocsaryi Rohwer, 1920

Arge montana Koch & Goergen, 2010
Arge namaensis Koch & Goergen, 2010
Arge neavei Forsius, 1927
Arge posterior Pasteels, 1963
Arge rufocyanea (Enslin, 1911)
Arge sjoestedti Konow, 1907
Arge speciosa (Klug, 1834)
Arge spei (Enslin, 1911)
Arge stuhlmanni (Kohl, 1893)
  Arge swartbergensis Koch & Liston, 2012
Arge taitaensis Koch & Eardley, 2011
Arge taeniata (Klug, 1834)
Arge ugandana Pasteels, 1953
Arge urania (Kirby, 1882)
Arge vannoorti Koch & Liston, 2012
  Arge ventralis Koch & Liston, 2012
Arge whiteheadi Koch & Goergen, 2010
Arge species

Distribution

Worldwide, but most diverse in the tropics.

Biology

Phytophagous.

Arge_larvae_Picker&Griffiths

Sawfly larvae of Arge dirce feeding on their host-plant. Photograph © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths.

References

Blank, S.M., Taeger, A., Liston, A.D., Smith, D.R., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Shinohara , A., Heidemaa , M. & Viitasaari, M. 2009. Studies toward a World Catalog of Symphyta (Hymenoptera). Zootaxa 2254: 1–96.

Enslin, E. 1911. Über Tenthrediniden aus Afrika. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Berlin [1911](6): 657-669.
Enslin, E. 1912. Tenthredinidae von der Deutschen Zentralafrika-Expedition 1907-1908. In: Schubotz, H.(Ed). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika Expedition 1907-1908 unter Führung Adolf Friedrichs, Herzogs zu Mecklenburg 1. Zoologie II. Klinckhard & Biermann, Leipzig: 53-56.
Enslin, E. 1913. Zoologische Ergebnisse der Expedition G. Tessmanns nach Süd-Kamerun und Spanisch-Guinea. Tenthredinoidea. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, Berlin 7 (1): 103-114.
Enslin, E. 1913. Tenthredinoidea vom Belgischen Kongo, gesammelt von Dr. J. Bequaert. Nebst Bemerkungen über einige afrikanische Tenthrediniden des Ungarischen Nationalmuseums. Revue Zoologie Africaine, Bruxelles 3(2): 299-323.
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limitrophes (Hym., Tenthr.). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, Bruxelles 16: 233-241.
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Forsius, R. 1930. On Some South African Tenthredinoidea from The Durban Museum, Natal. Annals of the Durban Museum 3 (3): 67–76.
Forsius, R. 1930. Bemerkungen über afrikanische Tenthredinoiden. Notulae Entomologicae, Helsingfors 10(3-4): 65-68.

Forsius R. 1931. Notes on a Collection of Ethiopian Oryssoidea and Tenthredinoidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 10th series, 8 (43):136.

Förster, A. 1854. Neue Blattwespen. Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preußischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, Neue Folge, Bonn 1: 265-350.

Kirby, W.F. 1882. List of Hymenoptera with description and figures of the typical specimens in the British Museum. Tenthredinidae and Siricidae. Trustees, London 1: 1-450.

Klug, F. 1814. Die Blattwespen nach ihren Gattungen und Arten zusammengestellt. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die neuesten Entdeckungen in der gesamten Naturkunde, Berlin 6[1812](4): 276-310.
Klug, F. 1818. Die Blattwespen nach ihren Gattungen und Arten zusammengestellt. Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin Magazin für die neuesten Entdeckungen in der gesamten Naturkunde, Berlin 8[1814](4): 273-307.
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Koch, F. 2005. The sawflies of the BIOTA-Southern Africa Project with description of a new species of Arge (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Symphyta). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin - Zoologische Reihe 81: 193-199.

Koch, F. 2006. A contribution to the sawfly fauna of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae, Tenthredinidae). Beiträge zur Entomologie, Keltern 56 (1): 115-123.

Koch, F. 2006. A contribution to the sawfly fauna of the winter rainfall area of southern Africa: revision of the genus Triarge Forsius, 1931 with description of a new species of Pampsilota Konow, 1899 (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae: Arginae, Athermantinae). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin - Zoologische Reihe 82: 223-238.

Koch F. & Eardley C. 2011. Revision of the Afrotropical Arge mirabilipes group, with description of two new species and annotations to other Arge species of this region (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae: Arginae). African Invertebrates 52: 457-470 http://dx.doi.org/10.5733/afin.052.0213

Koch, F. & Goergen, G. 2008. Annotations to the Palaearctic sawfly genus Pseudarge Gussakovskij, 1935 gen. rev. with a contribution to the genus Arge Schrank, 1802 in the Afrotropical region (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae: Arginae). Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 98: 43-57.

Koch, F. & Goergen, G. 2010. Eight new species of Arge from South Africa and Namibia (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Argidae). Lambillionea 110 (1): 19-34.

Koch, F. & Liston, A.D. 2012. Notes on Afrotropical sawflies of Arge Schrank, 1802, with the description of a new species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Argidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift · Stuttgart 122: 177-181.

Koch, F. & Liston, A.D. 2012. On the Arge capensis species group, with descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Symphyta, Argidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift · Stuttgart 122: 261-268.

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Liston, A.D., Goergen, G. & Koch, F. 2017. Revisions of the Afrotropical genera of Argidae and species of Pampsilota Konow, 1899 (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinoidea). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64(1): 1-25. doi: 10.3897/dez.64.10800

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Pasteels, J. 1955. Prodromes d’une faune des Tenthredinoidea de l’Afrique noire. Supplément aux Argidae. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, Bruxelles 91: 331-340.
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Picker, M., Griffiths, C & Weaving, A. 2002. Field Guide to Insects of South Africa. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.

Credits

Photographs of pinned specimens © Frank Koch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa) or © Andrew D. Liston (Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut) or © Georg Goergen (International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin); photographs of living adult and larvae © Mike Picker & Charles Griffiths (published in Struik's Field Guide to Insects of South Africa).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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