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Sirex is a genus of wasps in the family Siricidae, the horntails or wood wasps. They inject eggs with fungal endosymbionts into wood. The fungus is contained in a mycangium which nourishes it with secretions, and in turn it digests wood for the wasp larva.
The genus includes economically important pests; S. noctilio, known simply as the 'Sirex woodwasp' is an invasive species, having spread widely across the world from its original range.[1][2]
Species
- Sirex abietinus Goulet, 2012
- Sirex areolatus (Cresson, 1868)
- Sirex behrensii (Cresson, 1880)
- Sirex californicus (Ashmead, 1904)
- Sirex carinthiacus Konow, 1892
- Sirex cyaneus Fabricius, 1781
- Sirex ermak (Semenov, 1921)
- Sirex hispaniola Goulet, 2012
- Sirex juvencus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Sirex longicauda Middlekauff, 1948
- Sirex mexicanus Smith, 2012
- Sirex mongolorum (Semenov)
- Sirex nigricornis Fabricius, 1781
- Sirex nitidus (Harris, 1841)
- Sirex nitobei Matsumura
- Sirex noctilio Fabricius, 1793
- Sirex obesus Bradley, 1913
- Sirex sinicus Maa
- Sirex tianshanicus (Semenov)
- Sirex torvus Harris, 1779
- Sirex varipes Walker, 1866
- Sirex vates Mocsáry
- Sirex xerophilus Schiff, 2012
References
- ^ Sirex Woodwasp – Sirex noctilio. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 2011.
- ^ Hurley, B. P., et al. (2007). A comparison of control results for the alien invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, in the southern hemisphere. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 9(3), 159–71.
Further reading
- Hajek, A. E., et al. (2013). Fidelity among Sirex woodwasps and their fungal symbionts. Microb. Ecol. 65(3) 753–62.
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